{"id":589970,"date":"2026-04-06T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:19:08","slug":"westpac-ceo-anthony-miller-urges-jim-chalmers-to-embrace-ai-for-productivity-boost-as-federal-budget-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589970\/","title":{"rendered":"Westpac CEO Anthony Miller urges Jim Chalmers to embrace AI for productivity boost as federal budget nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westpac chief executive Anthony Miller says artificial intelligence could be the catalyst for a productivity boom, and the government should focus on the economic benefits, even amid growing public anxiety and distrust in the nascent technology.<\/p>\n<p>Miller said technology was one of the \u201cclassic unlocks for productivity\u201d and, as the federal budget approaches in May, he urged Treasurer Jim Chalmers to \u201cchase the opportunity and the upside\u201d of AI, such as boosting government services without increasing spending, which would outweigh risks such as job losses.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westpac chief executive Anthony Miller says artificial intelligence could be the catalyst for a productivity boom, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-589970","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\/589970","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=589970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}