The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

AI has witnessed a rapid development in the past two years. Establishing AI offices in government helps coordinate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence in a structured, safe and strategic way. They create opportunities for innovation, stronger governance, and improved trust in AI-powered government services.

Estishraf is an initiative by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority that enables evidence-based decision-making across government. It uses advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to analyse integrated government data, simulate policy outcomes, detect patterns and emerging risks, and generate actionable insights for policymakers. The initiative helps government entities better understand economic and social trends, evaluate policy impacts, strengthen national planning.

This initiative is an AI-powered tool developed for the Saudi Water Authority that automatically reads and interprets complex engineering diagrams used in water desalination plants. It identifies equipment, classifies plant processes, and allows engineers to ask questions about the diagrams through a chat interface. It was developed to reduce the time and manual effort required to analyse these technically complex documents.

This initiative provides updated guidance to help Australian Government agencies safely use publicly available generative AI tools, such as chatbots that can draft text, summarise documents, or answer questions. The guidance explains how staff can use these tools with government information that is not classified or sensitive while protecting personal and commercial information. The guidance was updated to reflect new information security advice from the Department of Home Affairs.

Peru’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2026–2030, approved by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers through Ministerial Resolution No. 152-2026-PCM, is a national strategic instrument designed to organise and coordinate State interventions for the development, governance and management of artificial intelligence. It establishes a long-term vision and provides a framework for strengthening AI capabilities, deployment, oversight and public-sector coordination across the country.

Provides guidance to make it easier for businesses to comply with their privacy obligations when using commercially available AI products and to assist them with selecting an appropriate AI product. Aims to clarify how Australia’s privacy laws apply to AI and outlines practical steps to follow privacy best practices. Developed in response to growing concerns about the use of their personal information to deploy AI products, and uncertainty among industry around how privacy law applies to AI.

The Framework guides the Australian Public Service (APS) in improving governance practices for data related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and aims to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people greater agency over how their data are governed within the APS. Recognising the importance of data for self-determination, the Framework provides a stepping stone towards greater awareness and acceptance by APS agencies of the principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty.

Finance developed the Document Register Agent (DRA) an AI-enabled tool that supports a business area to extract and record key information from documents. It uses AI and automation to extract key information from documents and store it in a consistent format. DRA was developed to improve access to historical records, reduce duplication of work, and address problems caused by broken links, inconsistent document formats and limited searchability.

In 2024, the DTA led the 6-month Australian Government trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot – a generative AI assistant embedded in the Microsoft 365 application suite. The trial involved the distribution of over 5,700 Copilot licenses across 56 federal government agencies. Broadly, the trial and evaluation tested whether the anticipated benefits of generative AI capabilities translated into real‑world adoption by workers.

The standard helps agencies, technical specialists and business owners build AI safely and responsibly by providing practical guidance to design, build and deploy AI systems in ways that uphold fairness, transparency and accountability. The standard reinforces the Australian Government’s AI Ethics Principles into a set of technical requirements and guidelines.

This initiative applies AI to automatically create short, clear summaries of government grant applications published on Grant Connect. It was developed to reduce manual work and errors, and to ensure grant information is accurate, consistent and easy for the public to understand.

This initiative used computer tools (including AI tools) to help government staff review and summarise public consultation responses more efficiently. It was developed to manage a large volume of submissions while ensuring every response was still read and checked by people. The approach aimed to save time, improve consistency, and support better advice to government while protecting privacy.

The Department uses drones to provide innovative and expert advice grounded in evidence and science, provide regulatory compliance and surveillance activities, provide land management, visitor safety and infrastructure inspection in Commonwealth Parks, engage and partner with First Nations ranger groups and provide staff safety and wellbeing in operational settings.

farmpredict is a simulation model of Australian farm businesses. It uses statistical machine learning to predict how Australian farms will be affected by recent and future weather and other factors like changes in commodity prices. Outputs from farmpredict support government and other organisations in planning early for supporting farms through drought and other challenges. farmpredict can also separate effects of climate from other changes, helping understand the costs of climate change.

The Digital Health Agency’s AI initiative aims to improve how health information is used to support safer, more connected care for Australians. It helps clinicians and consumers by providing faster insights and reducing manual work. The initiative was created to address growing demand for timely, reliable health information and to ensure emerging AI tools are used safely and responsibly in the health system.

The Government of Alberta is deploying AI-supported tools to modernise service delivery, including secure knowledge retrieval, automated application development, and enterprise generative AI. These tools help staff respond faster, work more consistently, and improve service quality for Albertans.

The AI Act and the AI Basic Plan (established in Article 18, para. (1) of the Act) constitute a government-led policy framework designed to promote AI innovation while mitigating risks. It is intended for citizens, business operators, and R&D institutes, aiming to ensure that AI benefits society and supports economic growth. It is necessary to address delays in domestic AI development and public concerns about AI-related risks, while balancing innovation promotion with effective risk mitigation.

The systematic development of guidelines and key considerations for AI utilisation by government agencies from the perspective of legal frameworks governing administrative procedures including those involving citizens (such as various application processes). This approach aims to prevent any misuse of AI by government agencies that could infringe upon citizens' rights and interests or compromise administrative fairness and transparency, and to not unduly restrict “risk-free” AI applications.

Social Media Analysis is an AI system that automatically classifies content from X (formerly Twitter) to support the Water Authority’s leadership. It replaces a 4-hour daily manual process with automated sentiment, location, and problem classification. By feeding daily insights into the Observatory Dashboard, it enables higher management to understand citizen feedback and service reports instantly, significantly improving digital transparency and public engagement.

H2O AI Assistant is an AI portal for water sector leadership and employees to query our water sector knowledge base via natural language. It empowers executives and managers by providing instant access to unstructured documents and structural databases, streamlining decision-making. Developed to break down information silos and modernise data retrieval, it uses generative AI models to turn complex records into actionable insights, ensuring our leadership remains data-driven and efficient.