Orissa High Court CJ Muralidhar Lauds Justice Anoop Chitkara Of Punjab & Haryana HC For Using ChatGPT While Writing Bail Order

While addressing the gathering, he talked about the highly-advanced AI tool, Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT). He said it is an algorithm-based software which basically reads up all that is available on the internet, which is known as ‘machine reading’, and helps the users to find out what all are there on a particular topic.

He referred to the recent order passed by Justice Anoop Chitkara, Judge of the Punjab & Haryana High Court, while deciding a bail application wherein he sought assistance of ChatGPT to get a broader outlook on the bail jurisprudence around the world in cases of cruel assault.

“One Judge, Justice Anoop Chitkara in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, just last week he was preparing a bail order. So, he asked ChatGPT to tell him about the principles governing grant of bail when there is a cruel and unusually cruel assault. He put some standard phrases and ChatGPT gave him two paragraphs on what the legal position is. Justice Chitkara has explained the whole process in the order that he has written and yet he says that this is only a tool which can tell me what the law is, how to apply the law and what I should decide on the basis of the law is my task.”

He urged the Judges and advocates to read that order to see and realise how the justice delivery system is going forward in terms of use of technology for working more efficiently.

He said, we must acknowledge that technology is a tool. It cannot substitute for what a human being can do in all spheres. It can do some routine functions. He further said that the Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help Judges to organise themselves, to arrange the kinds of cases they have in their roster. It can detect patterns in the cases.

“Let’s say Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. There is a standard set of paragraphs you will have in a complaint. There is a standard set of responses you will have to those paragraphs in the complaint and there is a standard set of issues that will be dealt with by Judges when they decide such complaints. Artificial Intelligence can help you to organise the board, arrange these issues for you and help you detect what are common between all these cases. But the actual deciding of the case, only the Judge has to do,” he added.