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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Medical Diagnosis, Artificial Intelligence

The Hon. F. PANGALLO (15:04): Supplementary: I also asked about your department, Attorney. Is ChatGPT being used in the Attorney-General's Department, Crown law, DPP? Has any guidance been issued to solicitors working for the government?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (15:04): I thank the honourable member for the question. Certainly in the legal area it is an issue that has thrown up complexities. I think there was a US case where written submissions were clearly made by an artificial intelligence-generated program. I remember reading a report of referring to cases that did not exist, that the artificial intelligence program wrote precedents that had not actually occurred.

I have no doubt that in some areas, particularly policy modelling, there will be some sort of iterative learning that will be developed and employed, like in every policy area across government. In terms of its application, I assume what the honourable member is talking about is in making legal submissions or formulating argument. I am not aware that it is used in that form, either with the Crown or the DPP, but I would certainly be happy to take that on notice for the honourable member.

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