{"id":66041,"date":"2025-08-13T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66041\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:31:08","slug":"productivity-commission-report-says-ai-and-robots-could-unleash-big-gains-in-the-care-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66041\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity Commission report says AI and robots could unleash big gains in the care sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disability and aged care businesses should use robots to complete routine tasks such as monitoring vitals and logistics, the Productivity Commission says in a new report that also calls on the government to slash layers of red tape that make it difficult for people to get into care jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In the commission\u2019s fifth and final report ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/the-policy-panic-that-sent-albanese-and-chalmers-into-private-talks-20250812-p5mm9x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Treasurer Jim Chalmers\u2019 Economic Reform Roundtable next week<\/a>, it also urged the government to create uniform rules on the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/labor-must-lift-care-economy-productivity-says-ex-pc-boss-20250728-p5miey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI across the whole care economy<\/a>, rather than letting \u201csector-specific approaches develop which create complexity and inconsistency\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disability and aged care businesses should use robots to complete routine tasks such as monitoring vitals and logistics,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-66041","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\/66041","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=66041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}