Indian Supreme Court judge urges justice system to embrace AI tools

A sitting Supreme Court judge publicly telling lawyers that AI is “no longer a matter of choice” for the justice system is a cultural turning point. Justice Narasimha’s remarks in Hyderabad frame AI not as a curiosity but as infrastructure needed to manage pendency and meet the expectations of increasingly well-informed litigants. ([timesofindia.indiatimes.com](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/embrace-ai-mediation-to-ease-delivery-of-justice-sc-judge/articleshow/126238754.cms)) Coming from the top of India’s judicial pyramid, that message will carry weight with high courts and bar councils still hesitant to embed AI into research, drafting and case management.

In AGI terms, this is part of a broader pattern: high-stakes institutions—courts, health systems, regulators—are starting to normalize AI as a co‑worker. That creates both data and demand for more capable, reliable models that can handle nuanced legal reasoning, multilingual documents and complex procedural rules. It also raises the bar on safety: hallucinated citations or biased recommendations are not abstract risks when they shape real cases.

If India’s courts move quickly on internal tooling, they could become a major source of supervised data and evaluation tasks for legal reasoning systems, much as US case law did for earlier legal tech. That would pull AGI systems deeper into public decision-making, making alignment with constitutional values and procedural fairness a core technical challenge rather than an afterthought.