AI Could Fix Australia’s Productivity Crisis, Outgoing Head Says

  • Productivity commissioner says government should boost AI use
  • Brennan to end five-year term at head of commission in Sept.
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Australia’s outgoing productivity czar has pointed to artificial intelligence as a potentially “significant” driver of a productivity revolution, as the Western world struggles to climb out of a malaise in workplace efficiency.

Productivity Commissioner Michael Brennan said AI was one of the most high-potential technologies to improve economic output in coming decades, while emphasizing that it was still in an early phase of development.