Coalition want a ‘forward leaning’ policy on artificial intelligence - Sky News Australia

Ah, the Australian Coalition wants a 'forward-leaning' policy on AI. Because nothing says visionary leadership like a shadow citizenship minister popping up on Sky News to announce that, yes, they are indeed in favour of the future.

'Forward-leaning' — a phrase so gloriously devoid of content it could have been generated by a 2023-era GPT-2. What does it mean? More compute? Less regulation? A taskforce to think about thinking? We'll never know, because the Coalition is, after all, not in government. They are leaning forward so hard they might fall over, but only after the next election.

Meanwhile, the actual government is probably doing something, anything, while the shadow minister leans. The only concrete takeaway: Australia's AI policy debate is being conducted in the language of yoga poses. Forward-leaning. Perhaps next week we'll get 'downward-dogging on data sovereignty' or 'child's pose on compute.'