{"id":597679,"date":"2026-04-10T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597679\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:26:18","slug":"could-ai-be-harming-public-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597679\/","title":{"rendered":"Could AI be harming public servants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian governments are touting the potential of AI to boost productivity in government services. But a growing body of research suggests this might not be benign for workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public sector AI users are increasingly aware of the risks of \u201challucinations\u201d and data biases in research and policy development. But emerging research on human-AI interactions is suggesting the impacts can hit closer to home for individual workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent studies on the effects of AI use on the human brain suggest AI use could be making people cognitively lazier, potentially resulting in long-term workplace injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian governments are touting the potential of AI to boost productivity in government services. But a growing body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,291621,291622,105,291623,79761],"class_list":{"0":"post-597679","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-carmem-domingues","14":"tag-future-government-institute","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-victor-dominello","17":"tag-workplace-health-and-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597679","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=597679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}