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Emily Low Joins Gradient Institute
We're delighted to welcome Emily Low to the Gradient team!
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Gradient Institute 2025 Impact Report
In 2025, Gradient Institute shaped Australiaʼs national AI guidance, contributed to global AI safety science, and helped hundreds of organisations build the capabilities to develop, deploy and use trustworthy AI systems.
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Event
Launching Gradient Gatherings
We're hosting our first Gradient Gatherings event in Sydney, and we'd love to see you there.
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Explainer
Scaling Sameness
There is an intuitive logic to redundancy. Send three engineers to check the bridge. Have two pilots in the cockpit. Run the numbers twice. If independent reviewers reach the same conclusion, we treat that agreement as evidence the conclusion is sound. Having a second (or more) pair of eyes on a process, a deliverable, a product helps reduce the risk of an individual’s blind spot undermining the desired result.
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New Guidance for AI Adoption
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) has released Guidance for AI Adoption to enable safe and responsible AI across Australian industry. The Guidance for AI Adoption: Foundations and supporting templates were developed by Gradient Institute with the National AI Centre.
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Gradient Institute Response to the Productivity Commission's Interim Recommendations on AI
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 conventional governance principles to a fundamentally unconventional technology that may lead to a paradigm shift in how society operates.
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Navigating AI with clarity and discernment
Gradient Institute is an independent nonprofit research organisation helping society understand, steer and respond to AI as it transforms our world. We conduct, distil, and interpret scientific research to bring clarity where decisions are complex, stakes are high, and uncertainty is the norm. Our approach is built on:
Independent research
Rigorous research into AI systems, capabilities and risks, grounded in how they affect people, institutions, and society in practice.
Public-interest insight
Research designed to support policy, governance, and responsible use - with public benefit as the guiding principle.
Practical clarity
Clear, science-based explanations that help decision-makers and the public understand trade-offs, limits, and consequences, so decisions become responsive rather than reactive.
What We Do
We help people build calibrated trust in AI: trust that is proportionate to the evidence. More trust than the evidence warrants creates risk. Less holds back AI’s potential. We provide the research, methods, and frameworks that ground trust in evidence and rigorous analysis, so that AI can be used responsibly, governed effectively, and questioned rigorously.
Rigorous Independent Research
We conduct, distil, and interpret research, including through sponsored research and strategic partnerships, on AI capability, safety, and societal impact. Our work generates new knowledge and insight that helps tackle high-stakes challenges where technical and scientific AI research is essential.
Explore researchAdvisory and Expert Guidance
We partner with governments, organisations, civil society, and communities to bring scientific understanding into important decisions about AI and its applications. We help people understand the terrain, provide assurance, and support thoughtful implementation to achieve intended impacts.
Explore AdvisoryEducation and Capability Building
We help people across government, industry, civil society, and the public build genuine understanding of AI: what it is, what it can and cannot do at any point in time, where it can go wrong, and how to engage with it responsibly. Our programs build skills, discernment, and calibrated trust, so supporting clear-eyed decision-making rather than blind or reluctant adoption.
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Partner with Gradient Institute
We collaborate with governments, research institutions, universities, industry, and civil society on work aligned with our public-interest mission. Our partnerships focus on bringing rigorous research and clear judgment into decisions where AI carries real societal consequences.
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