Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Thursday interacted with an Synthetic Intelligence (AI) lawyer on the Nationwide Judicial Museum and Archive (NJMA) on the Supreme Courtroom premises.
Chandrachud stated that the Museum displays the significance of the court docket to the lifetime of our nation, dedicating the museum to the nation.
The CJI, together with a number of different high court docket judges, took a stroll by way of the museum when he got here throughout the AI lawyer. He then took an opportunity to check its potential and requested, “Is the loss of life penalty constitutional in India?”
The AI lawyer, clad in an advocate’s coat, responded, “Sure, the loss of life penalty is constitutional in India. It’s reserved for the rarest of uncommon instances as decided by the Supreme Courtroom the place the crime is exceptionally heinous and warrants such a punishment.” This left Chandrachud visibly impressed, whereas different judges round him started clapping.
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The CJI has beforehand spoken concerning the capabilities of AI, advocating for the usage of the know-how in ‘delivering justice’ as nicely.
Earlier this 12 months, Chandrachud highlighted that AI represents the following frontier of innovation that has the transformative potential to hurry up and streamline justice supply. He had stated that utilizing AI-powered instruments, courts can streamline the executive procedures, scale back paperwork and expedite the decision of authorized disputes.
Nevertheless, he had additionally warned of the indiscriminate use of Synthetic Intelligence and the systemic challenges that it poses.
On Thursday, Chandrachud spoke on the inauguration of the museum and stated, “This has taken virtually a 12 months and a half in conceptualisation and planning. The precise execution has taken about six months.”
“It has been executed in report time. We thought that we will need to have not only a museum of artefacts, however a museum similar to one of the best internationally, to undertaking the significance of our establishment and the excessive courts in delivering justice to our residents and in defending the elemental rights of our residents,” he added.
The Chief Justice of India additional famous that the designers of the museum had been additionally those to design the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalay and the Teen Murti Bhawan and praised them for his or her efforts.
“The executors of this museum was already forward of time. They knew what i used to be speaking about. They’d additionally designed the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalay on the Teen Murti Bhawan, so they’d all of the expertise of doing a contemporary museum of a highest worldwide high quality,” Chandrachud stated.
Chandrachud is ready to retire because the fiftieth Chief Justice of India on November 10 and he shall be succeeded by Justice Sanjiv Khanna.
