Artificial Intelligence

Question

1. Does the department allow for the use of ChatGPT, CoPilot, Claude, or other Ai services on the internal network? If so, what risk management and governance mechanisms are in place to protect government data? 2. Please provide the department policy on use of artificial intelligence. 3. Has the department purchased a subscription for staff to an AI service? If so: a. How many staff have access to this subscription; b. Was the subscription purchased through a whole-of-government procurement arrangement; and c. Would this purchase meet the requirements for the Governments proposed changes to procurement in Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Building Cooperative Workplaces No. 1) Bill 2026? 4. Does the department consider itself operationally ready to scale AI? a. If not, why and is it due to constraints such as fragmented data, legacy systems, poor integration and or technical debt? 5. What does your department need to do before AI can be used safely at scale?

Answer

Please see the attached PDF.

Documents

• Question with answer (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
• SQ26-000405.pdf (opens in a new tab)