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"Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as a way to boost lagging
productivity growth.
The AI productivity push has some powerful multinational backers: the tech
companies who make AI products and the consulting companies who sell AI-related
services. It also has interest from governments.
Next week, the federal government will hold a roundtable on economic reform,
where AI will be a key part of the agenda.
However, the evidence AI actually enhances productivity is far from clear.
To learn more about how AI is working and being procured in real organisations,
we are interviewing senior bureaucrats in the Victorian Public Service. Our
research is ongoing, but results from the first 12 participants are showing
some shared key concerns.
Our interviewees are bureaucrats who buy, use and administer AI services. They
told us increasing productivity through AI requires difficult, complex, and
expensive organisational groundwork. The results are hard to measure, and AI
use may create new risks and problems for workers."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
