Nepal, Jan. 15 -- The national conversation on artificial intelligence in Nepal is often framed as a simple choice: Should courts use Artificial Intelligence (AI) or not? This is a natural way to approach a new technology. But the question itself is already outdated. AI has quietly entered the legal field, not through dramatic announcements, but through tools that sort documents, search case law, transcribe speech and manage files. These systems do not decide cases, but they increasingly shape how legal reasoning begins, what information is prioritised and how judicial work is organised. What is missing in Nepal is not access to such tools, but clarity about how they influence legal judgment and who is responsible for overseeing them.

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