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Prisoner advocates and opposition parties in Tasmania are demanding a review of all recent parole board decisions. After it relied on legal precedents invented by AI to justify a parole condition on convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser. Legal experts say faulty advice generated by AI is infiltrating Tasmania’s courts and guardrails for using the technology are needed.

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00:02Speaking to the media after the Supreme Court officially threw out a parole condition that had barred her from protesting
00:09her innocence publicly.
00:10I'm very pleased and relieved that the parole order preventing me from speaking about my case has been removed.
00:18The revelation that the parole board had relied on legal precedents invented by artificial intelligence to justify placing a gag
00:27order on the convicted murderer has sent shockwaves through legal and political circles.
00:32You cannot use AI when you are making decisions in the justice system.
00:37We've had examples in Tasmania recently of self-represented litigants using AI to their detriment,
00:43but it's a whole other situation obviously for a government or a state organisation to be falling into trouble with
00:49the use of AI.
00:50The seriousness of the error has not been lost on Tasmania's Attorney General Guy Barnett.
00:55He sought an explanation from the parole board about its professional standards.
01:01But opposition parties want the government to go further.
01:04We need to understand whether this is a one-off or if it's a wider issue.
01:09And there does need to be a review of previous parole board decisions to see whether AI, slop, fake case
01:17law and hallucinations are contaminating decision making.
01:20Prisoner advocates say those involved in the decision should go.
01:25The reason they should resign is it should never be used to make decisions about people.
01:30And particularly this is a case about a person's liberty and their fundamental human rights.
01:35The ABC asked the parole board how often it used AI, if it would review past cases and if it
01:41was confident other cases weren't affected.
01:44It said it could not answer at this time.
01:47I think the AI horse has probably bolted. I think we probably generally appreciate that.
01:53But it is really about putting safeguards in place about the use of the technology.
01:56The ABC of the European Union.
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