{"id":520438,"date":"2026-03-05T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520438\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:12:08","slug":"ai-could-boost-australias-productivity-growth-by-3pc-without-inflation-says-cba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520438\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could boost Australia\u2019s productivity growth by 3pc without inflation, says CBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increased use of artificial intelligence by businesses and bureaucrats could allow the economy to grow as much as 3 per cent a year without fuelling inflation by lifting the nation\u2019s poor productivity, says the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Productivity, measured as gross domestic product per hour worked, rose 1 per cent over the year to December, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/fastest-growth-in-nearly-three-years-fuels-inflation-fears-20260303-p5o74x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released on Wednesday<\/a> showed. It was the first meaningful improvement in the post-COVID-19 era.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Increased use of artificial intelligence by businesses and bureaucrats could allow the economy to grow as much as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-520438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520438","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=520438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}