Efforts on to establish AI ecosystem for the judiciary, says CJI
POLITY – JUDICIARY
8 JUNE 2026
- Observing that the Supreme Court has consciously approached technology as an aid to human reasoning rather than as a substitute for independent judicial thought, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said that considerable emphasis has been placed on developing “Swadeshi jurisprudence”.
- “Indian or ‘Swadeshi jurisprudence’ is one that remains attentive to our own constitutional values, institutional realities, linguistic diversity, and social conditions rather than relying solely upon imported technological models or assumptions,” the CJI said.
- Delivering a lecture at the Oxford Union and the Oxford Law Society on the theme “Constitutional promise to digital reality: safeguarding justice in the age of AI and technological advancement”, the CJI said that in addition to ongoing technological initiatives, serious efforts are under way to explore establishing an indigenous AI ecosystem for the judiciary.
- “It has, in many ways, brought judicial systems across the world into far closer conversation with one another and strengthened what may now fairly be described as an increasingly interconnected global judicial community,” he said.
- He also emphasised that technology can never replace human judgment.
- He added that an AI system can process immense volumes of legal text with astonishing speed.
- During the Q&A session, audience members attempted to question him about dissent in India and his controversial past “cockroach” courtroom remarks but the organizers quickly shut down the questions.
