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CJI Surya Kant has urged law schools not to ban AI tools, warning that prohibition could leave future lawyers a step behind. He called for students to be trained in ethical, transparent and supervised AI use while preserving human legal judgement.

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Sunday advised law schools against completely banning artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies in classrooms. He said students should instead be trained to use such tools in a supervised, transparent and ethical manner.

Speaking at the second edition of the Vise Chancellors' Conclave, organised by National Law University in Jodhpur, the CJI stated that a complete prohibition would leave students unprepared for a legal profession that increasingly relies on technology, as reported by Live Law.

He acknowledged concerns that an overreliance on AI could impair students' ability to construct arguments independently, leading them to accept plausible-sounding but legally incorrect answers. However, he believes that such risks should be addressed through education and supervision rather than prohibition.

"But prohibition cannot be the answer to that risk. A student who is forbidden from encountering these tools in a supervised, disciplined academic setting will still encounter them when they enter a law firm, a corporate office, a public institution, a policy organisation, a technology-driven workplace or a courtroom. By denying them these tools, we won't have protected that student; we will have sent them into professional life a step behind their peers, unfamiliar with technologies that their colleagues and institutions increasingly expect them to understand," the CJI said.