India, Feb. 18 -- As India hosts the world's largest artificial intelligence conclave, the AI Impact Summit-2026, to make a big pitch for the new technology, the Supreme Court on Tuesday red-flagged its flip side. A top court bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant expressed serious concern over a growing trend of lawyers filing petitions drafted with AI tools that contain non-existent judgements such as 'Mercy vs Mankind'.

"We are alarmed to reflect that some lawyers have started using AI to draft petitions. It is absolutely uncalled for," the bench, also comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and Joymalya Bagchi, said. It made the observations while hearing a PIL filed by academician Roop Rekha Verma seeking guidelines on political speeche...