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08 October: A Gradient Gathering on AI Ethics
Join us for an evening of gathering around deep questions on the ethics of AI, its implementation, use, and diffusion: what it means for work and society at large.
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News
Gradient partnering in the Buy Australian AI Partnership
Gradient Institute is proud to be a delivery partner in the Buy Australian AI Partnership, launched yesterday by Assistant Minister Dr Andrew Charlton MP and delivered by Stone & Chalk with the National AI Centre as Principal Sponsor, along...
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Report
New report examines risks and controls for AI agents interacting across organisational boundaries
The Australian AI Safety Institute has released its first publication: a report on the risks of AI agents interacting across organisational boundaries, commissioned from Gradient Institute.
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Resource
Gradient Institute publishes the "Everyday Guide to Using AI Safely"
AI is showing up everywhere, often without us noticing. We've developed a free, plain-English guide to help people use it well, covering everything from spotting AI scams to protecting your privacy, whatever your experience level.Read more...
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Explainer
The massive change in how software is produced
A couple of years ago, "AI in coding" mostly meant autocomplete: a tool that finished your sentence as you typed, like predictive text for programmers. It was useful, but modest. The human did the engineering while the machine saved keystro...
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Event
Australian AI Safety Forum 2026
Join us for this two-day interdisciplinary forum grounded in the science of AI safety as explored in the International AI Safety Report, as we bring together people from across research, government, industry and civil society to shape Austr...
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News
Emily Low Joins Gradient Institute
We're delighted to welcome Emily Low to the Gradient team!
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Why add a wine recommendation in an AI newsletter?
Almost everyone on our team loves wine.
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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 conclusi...
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Resource
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 b...
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