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Where AI is used, hiring has slowed.

AI is starting to show up in Australia's job ads. We compared job advertisements for occupations where AI is actually being used; jobs like software programmers, analysts and call centre workers, against similar occupations where it isn't, before and after ChatGPT arrived. Since late 2022, the AI-using occupations have been advertising roughly 390 fewer openings a month than their counterparts. That gap is too large to be chance.

Insights from San Francisco

Share-back event featuring insights from the Western Australian delegation to the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco.

The AI silence in Australia's NFP sector… with one exception

Among Australia's largest not-for-profits, AI has barely surfaced in official reporting. In verified FY2025 annual reports, just 5% of the largest NFPs mentioned AI at all — a tenth of the rate for ASX-listed companies, at 50%. However, major universities (also not-for-profits) sat at 92%.

What comes after AI Agents?

The future shape of AI is getting clear from the talks at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. We got introduced to Chatbots via ChatGPT in 2022. Agents started in 2025 and are maturing now in 2026. In 2027, we will start to get Digital Colleagues.

AITAI is pleased to announce a new research partnership with ESSCA's AI for Sustainability Institute, based in Paris, France.

This collaboration with ESSCA adds an international dimension to AITAI's research: the opportunity to compare how different policy settings, institutional attitudes, and industry structures shape AI adoption across national contexts.

When the story is jobs, the coverage turns negative.

When Australian media writes about AI and jobs specifically, the tone is far darker than when it writes about AI more broadly. In our corpus of AI coverage, articles on the topic of jobs ran 87% negative in the first quarter of 2026. This is well above the negativity of AI coverage in general.

Australia is quiet on AI - at least in annual reports

UK and US listed company annual reports mention AI far more than those of ASX listed companies.

Disagreement as information: the human role in AI-augmented research

We expected the AI to be the hard part of our news classification pipeline. Instead, two human coders disagreed with each other more than either disagreed with the AI. The fix was building tools for human clarity and consistency, which is where AI-augmented research really has to invest.

AI Policy for Economic Impact: The Strategic Question Facing Western Australia

A background paper prepared by AITAI for the cross-sector roundtable on how Western Australia can translate AI into productivity, capability, better services, and lasting local value.

LaunchLAB AI welcomes its third founder cohort

AITAI and Bloom have launched the third cohort of LaunchLAB AI, Australia's first AI incubator for tech founders, bringing together a highly selective group of engineers and entrepreneurs building AI startups.

Architects of Our AI Future: AITAI Officially Launches at St Catherine's College

On 11 March 2026, AITAI - the Australian Institute of Transformation and AI officially launched at St Catherine's College. The evening, titled Architects of Our AI Future, brought together leaders from academia, industry and the innovation community to explore how Western Australia can shape the future of AI adoption.

AI in the Australian News: what 339 articles told us (and why we don't trust the results yet)

What building an automated research pipeline taught us about building AI systems.

Australia’s Productivity Challenge and the Strategic Role of AI

Over the past eight years, growth in Australia’s labor productivity has been minimal, with Australian Bureau of Statistics data showing that multifactor productivity has declined for five consecutive years and is now back around pre-pandemic levels.

AITAI Hosts First AI Research Roundtable, Bringing Together WA's Leading Research Institutes

AITAI brought together academic and industry leaders at St Catherine’s College, Perth, to discuss ongoing AI research and strengthen collaboration across Western Australia.

Understanding AI’s Rapid Progress

San Francisco AI Mission

AITAI brought together WA AI leaders at St Catherine’s College to prepare the delegation for the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco. The session focused on strengthening global connections and showcasing Western Australia’s AI ecosystem internationally.

Western Australia AI Adoption Research Now Underway

AITAI has commenced a comprehensive study into AI adoption patterns across Western Australian organisations.