The Digital Transformation Agency's Policy for the responsible use of AI in government sets out the Australian Government’s approach to embrace the opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) and provide for safe and responsible use of AI. Transparency is critical to building public trust and is an important aim of the policy and broader APS Reform agenda.
The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) is dedicated to ongoing refinement and enhancement of our AI capabilities. We will be transparent as we enable and prepare, engage, monitor, adopt, review, evolve, integrate and pivot to changes in AI technology, environment and policy requirements.
At the ACNC, AI describes a family of technologies that can bring together computing power, scalability, networking, connected devices and interfaces, and data. AI systems can be programmed to perform specific tasks such as reasoning, planning, natural language processing, computer vision, audio processing, interaction, prediction and more. AI systems can operate with varying levels of autonomy.
The ACNC has processes to ensure:
- our AI use is appropriately governed
- our engagement with AI is confident, safe and responsible
- our stakeholders have trust in our use of AI
- our risks are identified and addressed
- our AI access and usage is monitored.
Currently, the ACNC does not use AI in any of our external services or in the production of any external advice. If we do implement any AI capability, we will update this statement to outline our use, with a summary of:
- the intentions behind why the ACNC uses AI or is considering its adoption
- the classification of AI use according to required outcomes and AI system or tool
- the classification of use where the public may directly interact with, or be significantly impacted by, AI without a human intermediary or intervention
- our measures to monitor the effectiveness of deployed AI systems, such as governance or processes
- our compliance with applicable legislation and regulation
- our efforts to identify and protect the public against negative impacts
- our compliance with each requirement under the Policy for the responsible use of AI in government.
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This statement will be reviewed annually. It will also be reviewed when we make a significant change to our approach to AI, or when any new factors impact this statement.
Authorised by Cate Bennett
Chief Information Officer
Assistant Commissioner – Operations and Engagement
28 February 2025