Editing News-August-13-2026 (section)

== India's Supreme Court sends government-AI safeguards for policy review ==
India's Supreme Court disposed of a public-interest petition without deciding its merits and directed that the petition be treated as a representation for the Union government to consider when evaluating AI policy measures.<ref name="kashmir-ai" /><ref name="lawtrend-ai" /> The bench comprised Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana.<ref name="kashmir-ai" /><ref name="lawtrend-ai" />

The court said regulation of AI is a highly technical issue within the policy domain and that judges lacked the specialized expertise to design an operational framework.<ref name="kashmir-ai" /><ref name="lawtrend-ai" /> Advocate Narendra Kumar Goswami's petition sought disclosure of high-risk AI systems used in welfare, policing, surveillance, and content regulation, along with binding ethics standards, algorithmic-impact assessments, bias audits, human oversight, data-protection safeguards, and comprehensive legislation governing state use of AI.<ref name="kashmir-ai" /><ref name="lawtrend-ai" />