Tag: automation

Govt to restart automated welfare penalties despite legal doubts

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Employment department will resume cancelling and suspending welfare recipient support payments from October, ending a two year freeze triggered by its error riddled compliance and technology systems. Government...

ARENA turns to tech to save solar mission

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Australia must make major changes to how large-scale solar projects are built and connected if their wholesale power prices are to hit a long sought price target, the federal...

Deloitte’s AI errors overshadow govt’s own automated mess

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Employment department still accepts the substance of Deloitte’s AI-error riddled report on Australia’s welfare compliance system, which could not assure it was operating effectively and was a punitive...

‘Failure on top of failure’: Welfare systems on the brink

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Crumbling technology, design flaws and gaping governance gaps in the federal government’s welfare compliance system mean the validity of its automated decisions can not be assured as it impacts...

Services Australia lays two-year AI ethics footing

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services Australia has unveiled its first automation and artificial intelligence strategy, which it says will give it a two-year ethical footing and pathway to trust in the technologies. The...

Expert advisers question AI testing at Services Aus

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services Australia ramped up its testing of automation and artificial intelligence last year in preparation for wider deployments aimed at cutting costs and improving services in 2025, despite incomplete...