Jan 16, 2026 – 3.36pm

Around 6am on a Saturday in early 2023, academic Anthea Roberts began receiving a flurry of excited messages from fellow Canberran policy and tech wonk Sam Bide.

He was experimenting with ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that was released three months earlier. He’d fed into it a model Roberts had built to help policymakers and business make better decisions.

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