{"id":130243,"date":"2025-09-09T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130243\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:56:10","slug":"future-fund-chairman-greg-combet-says-artificial-intelligence-will-have-major-effect-on-workforce-regardless-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130243\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Fund chairman Greg Combet says artificial intelligence will have major effect on workforce regardless of resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the federal government\u2019s $252 billion investment fund says his time as a union leader taught him that it would be futile to resist the rapidly evolving technology of artificial intelligence because it will deliver economic benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Combet, a former Labor government minister and Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary, endorsed AI while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/financial-services\/future-fund-assets-top-250b-after-12-2pc-return-20250909-p5mthm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unveiling a 12.2 per cent annual return for the Future Fund on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chairman of the federal government\u2019s $252 billion investment fund says his time as a union leader taught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-130243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}