{"id":56754,"date":"2025-08-10T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56754\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:55:08","slug":"bad-ai-policy-is-the-real-threat-to-workers-and-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56754\/","title":{"rendered":"bad AI policy is the real threat to workers and productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the printing press to the personal computer, the early stages of meaningful innovation have tended to cause worry and apprehension. That dynamic now occupies debates about how hard artificial intelligence should be regulated and has deepened the rift between business and unions in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The latest flashpoint is the Minns Labor government\u2019s surprise push this week to spearhead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/workplace\/nsw-labor-just-sneaked-in-this-regulation-on-monitoring-workers-20250807-p5ml4w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nation\u2019s first express regulation of AI<\/a> in the NSW parliament, catching businesses off guard.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the printing press to the personal computer, the early stages of meaningful innovation have tended to cause&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-56754","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\/56754","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=56754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}