South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas joined the Labor bandwagon of politicians talking tough on artificial intelligence this week, announcing Iain Ross, Kate Pounder and Christopher Manning will run his state’s royal commission into the technology’s safety and regulation.

Ross is a former Fair Work Commission president and Federal Court judge. Running a royal commission was always going to be part of his retirement plan. Manning is a renowned Stanford University “machine learning” expert. Again, predictable.

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