
Science-based clarity on AI and its impacts.
Gradient Institute is an independent not-for-profit research organisation headquartered in Australia. We empower people to make well-informed decisions in a world being transformed by AI.

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...

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...

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.

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.

Who we've worked with (selection)


















Partners
Gradient Institute is enabled by the vision of:

