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Last week the New Zealand government published their "Approach to work on Artificial Intelligence" We're behind in this area and need to rapidly develop policies and programs to get our people and organisations ready to transition to AI-enabled work. Here's the key points I took away: tl:dr - You've got permission and encouragement to use AI to save you time and make you more productive. 📈We support increased use of AI in New Zealand to boost innovation and productivity, strengthen our economy and deliver more effective public services. (Love that for us.) 🛡We'll take a proportionate, risk-base approach to AI regulation and use the regulations we already have in place for privacy, consumer protection and human rights rather than create new regulations. 🌏We're committed to following the OECD AI Principles and we need to be part of the international AI conversations around policy, use and regulation. This is a big one, we need to look to what's worked in driving AI capability for our partners. For example, Singapore and Australia have committed funds to upskilling people for AI-enabled work. 🏨We need to increase use of AI in the public service to deliver better, more innovative and efficient services 🗺We will develop a Roadmap to support AI use and provide guidance to businesses in the private sector. I'd like to see this Roadmap include awareness and capability programs for all New Zealanders to develop a base level of digital literacy so that they feel comfortable using AI-enabled tools at an individual level. This is necessary to address the concerns people have about AI and government's use of it, plus will enable them for meaningful and well-paid work in the future. We also need to be honest about the fact that our current infrastructure issues mean that there are already communities in New Zealand with limited access to stable internet connections because electricity services are intermittent. What's the plan to ensure equitable access to AI, when it relies on those basic rights being delivered in the first place? Shout out to Paul Evans for highlighting the document as soon as it was released last week, and Engie Matene for our kōrero a few weeks ago about the need for equitable access and just how far off that is for our remote communities in Aotearoa