How Australia’s national security chief used AI to write speeches

Australia’s top national security bureaucrat used an AI chatbot to conduct conversations and text messages to colleagues, internal documents show.

As Finance Minister Katy Gallagher explains A major government-wide AI plan to encourage its use in the public service, cricket used freedom of information (FOI) laws to reveal how a government employee was already using emerging generative AI technology in his work.

Hamish Hansford is the Home Office’s head of national security, the Commonwealth’s counter-terrorism coordinator and national counter-foreign interference coordinator.