AI can’t decide in a black box: CJI Chandrachud on digitisation of judiciary

Chief Justice of India, D Y Chandrachud, emphasised the imperative of transparency and accountability in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) for judicial decision-making during the J20 Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Chandrachud said, “As judges, we are neither princes nor sovereigns who are above the explainability requirement ourselves. We are now having conversations about the explainability of the artificial intelligence decision-making mechanism, which means that AI cannot decide in a black box and there must be an explanation of why it decided the way it did.”