{"id":452651,"date":"2026-02-02T01:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:09:19","slug":"victoria-guns-for-status-as-national-ai-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452651\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria guns for status as national AI capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Victoria has put out notice that it plans to be Australia\u2019s capital for digital infrastructure, data capacity, and adoption of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state has released a <a href=\"https:\/\/djsir.vic.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0004\/2454124\/The-Victorian-Governments-AI-Mission-Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">plan to develop and adopt AI \u201cresponsibly and ethically<\/a>,\u201d in a move that comes as the government recognises the rapid uptake of advanced and emerging technology by workplaces, households, and schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement outlines how AI is rapidly reshaping industries and institutions and plots a way for this trend to also drive innovation, boost productivity, attract and facilitate investment, and stimulate economic growth across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria has put out notice that it plans to be Australia\u2019s capital for digital infrastructure, data capacity, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[233803,256,254,255,64,63,233804,179116,38007,233805,74338,233806,105,660,233807],"class_list":["post-452651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advanced-research","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-danny-pearson","tag-defence-technology","tag-digital-infrastructure","tag-digital-jobs-ai-career-conversion-program","tag-digital-technologies","tag-sustainable-data-centre-action-plan","tag-technology","tag-victoria","tag-vps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452651","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=452651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}