CUTTACK: CJI DY Chandrachud has said live streaming of court proceedings has flipside and judges need to be trained as every word they say is in the public realm in the age of social media.
Addressing the National Conference on Digitisation, Paperless Courts and e-initiatives at the Odisha Judicial Academy here, the CJI said courts across the country are likely to become paperless soon, the national media reported on May 7.
“We have been using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for transcription of the proceedings of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court. The transcript is provided to lawyers to clean up any errors,” he said.
But, AI has a flip side as well. “For instance, it would be very difficult in allowing artificial intelligence to tell us what sentence to hand down following a conviction in a criminal case,” he said.
The CJI said most high courts in the country are live-streaming proceedings. Live streaming has a flipside as well, and judges need to be trained as every word that they say in court is in the public realm in the age of social media, he said.
Very often citizens don’t realise that what judges say in the course of a hearing is to open a dialogue, he added.
