chandigarh the punjab haryana high court on tuesday became the first court in india to have used chat gpt technology artificial intelligence to decide on the bail plea of an accused and it rejected the petitionthe bench led by anoop chitkara sought the response of chat gpt artificial intelligence while hearing the bail application of an accused arrested in june 2020 for alleged rioting criminal intimidation murder and criminal conspiracyjustice chitkara assessed the reply received from chat gpt and rejected the bail plea of the accused on the basis of his experiences and decisions given earlierthe judge said that to inflict death is cruel in itself but if cruelty leads to death then the situation changes when a physical assault is committed in a brutal manner the parameters of bail also changethe court also made it clear that any reference to chat gpt and any observation made is only intended to present a broader picture on bail jurisprudence where cruelty is a factorresponding to the use of chat gpt by the court a high court lawyer saurav said it is a good step it can have both positive and negative effects which will be decided in the future he also said that artificial intelligence cannot be a threat to the jobs of lawyers it can only be used as a toolnishadh ahuja who has been practising in the hc for the last three years while reacting to the judgment in the high court using chat gpt said that in the initial stages the use of chat gpt may not be a threat to us and can be used as a tool to make our work easier in the futurechiryanshu another lawyer who has been practising in the punjab haryana high court for the last five years said that the use of chat gpt is still in the early stagesbecause chat gpt and artificial intelligence are in their early stages it is too early to say that this could threaten a lawyers job giving examples he said that when computers were in the initial stages people thought that computers would take away their jobs but if seen today all the work in the it sector is done with computers and it is creating employment for many people he said