Chandigarh, April 7 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has instructed judicial officers not to use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot to write judgments and conduct legal research.
A letter issued by the high court's registrar-general on Monday to all district and sessions judges in Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh stated that the Chief Justice has asked them "to direct the judicial officers under your control not to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Meta, etc., for writing judgments and legal research. Any violation of these instructions will be taken seriously."
Earlier, the Gujarat High Court had prohibited the use of AI for any form of decision-making, judicial reasoning, order drafting, judgment preparation, bail sentencing considerations, or any substantive adjudicatory process.
According to the Gujarat High Court's AI policy, unveiled at a conference of district judiciary judges on Saturday, artificial intelligence should be used to improve the speed and quality of justice delivery, rather than as a replacement for judicial reasoning.