Safe and Responsible AI

We are an independent, nonprofit research institute that works to build safety, ethics, accountability and transparency into AI systems: developing new algorithms, training organisations operating AI systems and providing technical guidance for AI policy development.

Gradient Institute Response to the Productivity Commission's Interim Recommendations on AI

25 September 2025

Gradient Institute has responded to the Productivity Commission's interim report on 'Harnessing data and digital technology', arguing that its proposed regulatory approach to AI applies...

A diagram showing the reach Gradient Institute's webinars had over the span of the project. Base map image taken from Wikimedia.

Gradient Institute provides Responsible AI Support to Australian Not-for-Profits

22 August 2025

Australian not-for-profit organisations (NFPs)—organisations with socially-aligned motivations, knowledge, and experience—could significantly amplify their impact by using artificial intelligence...

Screenshot of Gradient Institute's report on Risk Analysis Techniques for Governed LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

New Report Analysing Multi-Agent Risks

29 July 2025

Organisations are starting to adopt AI agents based on large language models to automate complex tasks, with deployments evolving from single agents towards multi-agent systems. While this promises...

Australian AI Safety Forum 2024

18 November 2024

On 7-8 November 2024 the inaugural Australian AI Safety Forum 2024 was held at the Sydney Knowledge Hub at the University of Sydney, bringing together researchers, policymakers, and industry...

Australian Government releases mandatory AI guardrails paper and voluntary AI safety standard

5 September 2024

The Australian Government has released two key documents aimed at promoting safe and responsible AI in Australia, with Gradient Institute contributing expertise to their development.

Alberto Chierici and Liam Carroll join Gradient Institute team

27 August 2024

Gradient Institute is delighted to welcome Alberto and Liam to the team!

National framework for the assurance of AI in government

21 June 2024

The Australian Government's new AI framework draws on key contributions from Gradient Institute.

Bill Simpson-Young presents to Senate committee

10 May 2024

Gradient Institute CEO Bill Simpson-Young presented to the Australian Senate's Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) in May 2024.

Bill Simpson-Young appointed to AI Expert Group.

14 February 2024

Bill Simpson-Young, Chief Executive of Gradient Institute, has been appointed to the federal government’s temporary AI Expert Group.

Cartoon of an AI's robot hands pulling the strings of a human mannequin

Investigating Manipulative Applications of Generative AI

8 December 2023

With support from the Minderoo Foundation, Gradient Institute is exploring how bad actors could leverage the latest pre-trained language models for personalised persuasion and manipulation.

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