{"id":3228,"date":"2025-07-18T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3228\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:35:08","slug":"artificial-intelligence-will-help-revive-productivity-at-jim-chalmers-economic-reform-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3228\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence will help revive productivity at Jim Chalmers\u2019 economic reform roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial intelligence revolution could not have come at a better time for Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who has been struggling to sell the narrative that \u201cthe Australian economy is turning a corner\u201d. AI is being prescribed like it\u2019s the new wonder drug to revive stagnant productivity, boost business investment and kickstart growth.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasurer appears to have embraced this idea. He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/chalmers-pushes-back-on-union-demands-to-regulate-ai-at-work-20250613-p5m75k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian Financial Review last month<\/a> that AI was an absolute game changer, a key part of the productivity agenda, and that while \u201cregulation will matter, we are overwhelmingly focused on capabilities and opportunities, not just guardrails\u201d. Harnessing data and digital technology is the third pillar of Chalmers\u2019 productivity agenda, which he has tasked the Productivity Commission with.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artificial intelligence revolution could not have come at a better time for Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-3228","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\/3228","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=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}