{"id":285010,"date":"2025-11-15T00:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285010\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:03:18","slug":"ato-issues-draft-rules-for-agency-wide-use-of-generative-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285010\/","title":{"rendered":"ATO issues draft rules for agency-wide use of generative AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Taxation Office has issued draft chief executive instructions on the approved uses and restrictions of workplace generative artificial intelligence to all of its 21,493 employees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guidance comes as the federal government pumps the accelerator on the rollout of the controversial technology across the Australian Public Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Public Service Minister Katy Gallagher on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themandarin.com.au\/302852-gallagher-unveils-finances-ai-central-support-squad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealing<\/a> the Department of Finance will effectively provide a central command and support facility for APS AI deployments \u2014 within set boundaries, use cases, locations, and feedstock \u2014 the ATO\u2019s draft guidelines from the agency\u2019s chief, taxation commissioner Rob Heferen, are likely to form a core template for other agencies to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Taxation Office has issued draft chief executive instructions on the approved uses and restrictions of workplace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,17170,64,63,128663,164648,9460,17864,65838,62194,41254,39893,78927,164649,114203,2565,12080,36204,164650,164651,84620,105],"class_list":["post-285010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ato","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-public-service","tag-australian-public-service-commission","tag-australian-taxation-office","tag-automation","tag-chat-gpt","tag-department-of-finance","tag-dta","tag-gemini","tag-gen-ai","tag-generative-artificial-intelligence","tag-katy-gallagher","tag-machine-learning","tag-microsoft-copilot","tag-national-security","tag-nest-best","tag-pattern-recognition","tag-robodebt","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285010","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=285010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}