AI’s Positive Role in Indian Law and Technology

AI’s positive role in Indian law should be assessed through the legal work it helps people complete and the responsibility retained when it fails. The materials examined support the development of translation, research, accessibility and record-management services whose outputs can be checked against reliable sources. They also show why permission to use a system requires more than confidence in its general capabilities. The Supreme Court’s June 2026 draft connects encouragement of adoption with restrictions and oversight, but its verification exceptions need clarification and its correction arrangements would benefit from more explicit treatment of mistakes within permitted uses. A workable framework must also account for the staff, expertise and time required to carry out those duties. Predictable approval procedures and testable procurement conditions could help developers invest in useful applications, while common requirements could reduce repeated compliance work. Such advantages remain propositions to be evaluated, not measured outcomes of this study. The proposed pilot would examine them by comparing legal accuracy and total task time with a manual baseline. The case for regulating to innovate is therefore conditional: regulation should make beneficial assistance easier to develop, its performance easier to examine and its errors easier to remedy. The standard of success is an improvement in legal service that remains accountable to the people using it.

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