They Had A Policy

YPO Technology Network AI Brief · Sep 18, 2026 · 7m

On Tuesday the Supreme Court of Tasmania threw out a parole condition because the document justifying it cited case law that does not exist. The Parole Board has conceded its own secretary wrote that document with AI. Tasmania already had a twenty-page AI policy, approved two years and two days before the ruling, and it had warned that inappropriate use of AI in decision making could expose a decision to judicial review for being unreasonable or denying procedural fairness. Those are the court's grounds.

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