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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.
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%.
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.
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