India, Oct. 15 -- Artificial intelligence is everywhere. In the past two years, legal and compliance teams have been bombarded with tools that promise to cut review time, reduce costs, and even replace human judgment altogether. But in high-stakes environments-where a single mistake can derail litigation, compromise a regulatory response, or jeopardise sensitive client data-the idea of handing full control to an AI system isn't just unrealistic. It's dangerous.

The truth is simple: in legal, compliance, and investigative workflows, humans must remain in the loop.

In consumer applications, AI hallucinations or inconsistent outputs might be acceptable annoyances. In court or in front of a regulator, they are catastrophic.

Legal teams don...