This submission addresses policy reform areas in the Australian Productivity Commission’s inquiry into Pillar 3: harnessing data and digital technology. It focuses on enabling artificial intelligence's productivity potential and supporting safe data access and use through outcomes-based privacy regulation. The submission raises doubts about the interim report’s much-hyped productivity gains.

This submission argues that the public sector should be an exemplar of safe and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) use and demonstrate the positive potentials of technology. The public sector should, in its use of AI, demonstrate the positive impacts that technology can have in achieving important public goals, such as promoting access, inclusion, and better...

Generative AI products and services have sparked substantial interest in the private and public sectors. To help entities interested in GenAI deployments, this publication outlines 42 concepts fundamental to AI software systems. Each concept is illustrated through descriptions, examples and real-world use cases, with accessible language and visual elements to accommodate a diverse range of...

This research reviews different emerging digital and disruptive technologies in relation to housing. One key conclusion is that the sharing or ‘gig’ economy, with the likes of Airbnb, is already disrupting the housing sector.