Draft Supreme Court rules prohibit use of AI for judicial outcomes, witness profiling

Key points

• Prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to determine judicial outcomes, the Supreme Court AI committee has proposed draft regulations that bar AI-assisted sentencing without mandatory human oversight, prevent AI systems from profiling parties or witnesses, and disallow the use of “opaque” or “unexplainable” AI systems in any court process.
• The proposed regulations come amid concerns expressed by the top court in recent months over the growing reliance on AI by courts in rendering judgments.
• In March, a Bench headed by Justice P.S.
• Narasimha chided a trial court for relying on non-existent judgments generated with the help of AI, observing that it was not merely “an error in decision-making” but amounted to judicial “misconduct”.
• The preliminary draft of the ‘Regulations for Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Courts, 2026’, made public on Wednesday (June 3, 2026), underlines that AI systems used in court processes must “function solely in an assistive...