Monash University has secured one of Australia’s top quantum minds, appointing Muhammad Usman to lead its faculty of information technology’s quantum research. Dr Usman founded the quantum computing research...
Some of the most senior technology figures within the Australian Public Service have been tapped to sit on a new AI oversight body, adding another accountability layer to the...
More than 100 senior officials meant to oversee an artificial intelligence uplift within the public service are yet to be appointed and AI training has not yet been delivered...
Jacqui Curtis, the Australian Taxation Office’s long-time chief operating officer, has been named the next Australian Public Service Commissioner and will begin her five-year term in June. Ms Curtis,...
A cocktail of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and French AI startup Mistral are serving up answers to federal public servants through an early-stage trial of the Albanese government’s generative...
Welcome to Delivery: A GovTech Podcast! In this first episode, we talk to the Department of Finance’ chief AI officer Paul Hubbard about the structures and priorities behind the...
Embedding AI tsars across federal government agencies risks creating another layer of bureaucracy without the ‘tiger teams’ to make them effective, former NSW digital minister Victor Dominello says. “It’s...
A ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence tool for the public service will receive more than $166 million in funding over the next three years, the federal government has announced in its...
Last week, Finance minister Katy Gallagher unveiled the government’s AI Plan for the Australian Public Service. Across fifteen initiatives and three ‘pillars’, the plan aims to boost AI adoption...