Gujarat High Court (HC) AI Policy Prohibits Use in Judicial Decision-Making and Judgment Drafting

Key facts

• The Gujarat High Court (HC) introduced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy during a conference of district judiciary judges.
• The policy prohibits the use of AI for authoring, generating, or substantially composing any judgment, final order, or binding legal ruling.
• AI is barred from being used in judicial reasoning, bail sentencing considerations, fact-finding, or the evaluation and categorisation of proof.
• The policy restricts AI to administrative roles, metadata-driven case allocation, and legal research of principles to improve justice delivery speed.
• Judges and court officers are held personally responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of any AI-generated content issued under their names.
• The policy prohibits entering sensitive data into AI tools, including names, addresses, identifying information of parties, and privileged communications.
• AI tools are permitted for code generation for Information Technology (IT) department tasks and drafting circulars or notices already in the public domain.