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The AI company behind the Claude platform is pulling out all the stops to establish a strong relationship with the Australian government.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei entrenching links with the Australian government.
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has ramped up its Australian charm offensive, offering to share internal data with the federal government and collaborate on boosting AI uptake to unlock productivity gains.
In the only submission from an AI platform to a parliamentary inquiry into productivity — the San Francisco-based company behind Claude says AI is already delivering “large, measurable” time savings on economically significant tasks and could lift labour productivity by 1% to 1.8% a year over the next decade.
The company also uses the submission to offer further collaboration with the Australian government under its recently produced National AI Plan.
The submission comes three weeks after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei visited Australia to sign a memorandum of understanding with the government to support AI workers, startups and small businesses to build skills and assist the government harness the benefit of AI quickly, while promoting safety, supply chain security and research and development.
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Anthropic,
Australian politics,
Economy,
Workplace
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