{"id":279101,"date":"2025-11-12T04:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:26:09","slug":"how-australias-national-security-chief-used-ai-to-write-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279101\/","title":{"rendered":"How Australia&#8217;s national security chief used AI to write speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia\u2019s top national security bureaucrat used an AI chatbot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to his colleagues, internal documents show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Finance Minister Katy Gallagher announces\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/labor-to-launch-chatgpt-style-app-in-major-government-ai-push-20251112-p5neqf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a significant government-wide AI plan to promote its use in the public service<\/a>, Crikey has used freedom of information (FOI) laws to reveal how a government employee is already using the nascent generative AI technology in their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamish Hansford is the Department of Home Affairs\u2019 head of national security, the Commonwealth counter-terrorism coordinator and national counter foreign interference coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s top national security bureaucrat used an AI chatbot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to his colleagues, internal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[256,254,64,63,128663,99,62195,161766,80062,80061,161767,114203],"class_list":["post-279101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-public-service","tag-business","tag-department-of-home-affairs","tag-federal-finance-minister","tag-foi","tag-freedom-of-information","tag-hamish-hansford","tag-katy-gallagher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279101","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=279101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}