The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

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.

AssessorIA is a pioneering multi-agent ecosystem for the Rondônia Court of Justice, designed to transform legal workflows for judges and staff. By utilising "Specialists" for routine tasks and autonomous agents for complex case analysis, it integrates with judicial systems to solve high caseload challenges. This tool holds immense potential to centralise institutional knowledge and ensure unprecedented speed and precision, delivering a more efficient and ethical justice system.

GaIA is a generative AI assistant that helps appellate judges and court staff draft complex legal documents, such as case summaries and judicial decisions. It was developed to reduce judicial backlog by speeding up the writing process while preserving each judge's unique legal voice and style. This innovation ensures faster legal services for citizens while keeping humans in control of every final decision.

Standard guide that is being developed by the National Office of Information Technologies to guide the design and sizing of projects incorporating Artificial Intelligence Agents in public administration. It is only aimed at national public administrations seeking to adopt this technology in a planned and responsible manner. Its objective is to disseminate best practices, reduce risks, and ensure secure, effective implementation aligned with State priorities and regulations.

SOPHOS is an AI‑enabled language learning tool designed for use across the Government of Canada. It was first developed to support Canadian diplomats by providing adaptive training in more than 15 foreign languages aligned with the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale. The application is now being expanded to offer English and French training that meets federal official languages requirements, helping public servants across all regions access consistent, affordable learning.

Ulysses - Bill Procedural Routing Analysis is an AI system incoming legislative bills to identify procedural requirements and committee assignments, then produces a dispatch draft suggesting the bill's processing regime, committee routing order, and consideration procedures. It supports the Clerk’s staff before sending the bill to be discussed in the legislative committees. The Clerk staff are required to make many deep analyses of each incoming bill, which requires a lot of time.

NugepIA is an AI tool that organizes repetitive lawsuits to ensure faster and more consistent decisions for citizens. It was developed to replace slow manual processes and spreadsheets that were prone to human error in identifying similar cases. The system now automatically identifies identical cases and extracts dates from documents, making the court’s work more efficient.

The Prompting Guide for Public Administration is a national guidance for professionals working at National Public Administration. It supports the responsible use of generative AI by providing practical instructions, legal safeguards, and human oversight criteria for interacting with large language models. It was developed to strengthen institutional digital capabilities while ensuring data protection, transparency, and accountability in the use of AI tools.

GDDE's Data EF AI Agent is a digital assistant that helps Ministry of Economy and Finance staff quickly find and understand open government data. It was designed for making searching, downloading, and analyzing datasets from the Data EF Portal less time-consuming. It enables quicker and more effective decision-making by letting users ask straightforward questions and providing statistics, charts, and summaries.