In Port Harcourt, a gathering of retired Nigerian judges used the launch of a book on AI governance to raise a deeper alarm: that the quiet substitution of machine reasoning for human judgment in courtrooms threatens not just individual verdicts, but the very soul of justice itself. The concern is not with technology as a tool, but with the temptation to let it become a replacement — to trade the slow, accountable work of human intellect for the seductive speed of automated answers. These jurists, speaking from careers spent inside the system, are asking their profession to hold the line betwe