About this tracker
This site keeps a dated copy of every version of the Australian Government’s AI transparency statements and shows what changed between them. It is a Cybernetic Studio project by Dr Ben Swift at the ANU School of Cybernetics.
How it works
The scraper checks most agency statements daily and saves a copy when the text changes. Pages it cannot fetch are checked by hand. A language model (Claude Opus 5.5) then reads each change, writes a one-sentence summary, and records the statement’s answers to a fixed set of questions. Reading the data explains the results. The scraper, the prompts and every model reading are open source. Each figure can be checked against the statement it came from.
Ben Swift started the archive in November 2025, the week the APS AI Plan was launched, so the record opens on 11 Nov 2025 and misses the statements’ first nine months (what that means).
Following changes
New and changed statements are announced on Bluesky by @apsaitracker.app. The data is on the downloads page.
Who we track
Every non-corporate Commonwealth entity, from the Department of Finance’s list of Commonwealth entities, since these are the bodies the policy binds. Other bodies are added when we find a statement of theirs, often through the DTA’s central register, and a few that have never published are kept on the list. The agencies page shows who is required to publish.
Related work
Others have studied these statements as a single snapshot: Pan et al. (2026), who built the AITS-101 dataset, and an audit by the ADM+S Centre. The DTA’s central register lists the statements but keeps no version history. As far as we know, no one else tracks how they change.
The approach follows archives of privacy policies such as the Princeton–Leuven corpus and terms-of-service trackers. Similar efforts overseas record AI use itself, like the UK’s Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard and the Amsterdam and Helsinki algorithm registers, or score transparency over time, like Stanford’s Foundation Model Transparency Index.
Limitations
Site redesigns, bot blocks and PDF extraction all introduce noise, and a statement filed somewhere unusual can be missed, so an agency listed as not having published may have. Treat the figures as indicative, and check the original via the source link on each statement page.
Help fill the gaps
If you work at the DTA or at an agency and have a version of a statement we don’t, please get in touch. That could be a version from before tracking began, one published and replaced between our visits, or a statement we haven’t found at all. We’ll gladly add it to the record, marked as supplied by you. Email ben.swift@anu.edu.au, or open an issue on GitHub.
Citing the tracker
The tracker is archived on Zenodo. The DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20842437 always resolves to the latest version. In scholarly work:
Swift, B. (2025). Australian Government AI Tracker [Software]. ANU School of Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20842437
BibTeX and other formats are available from the Zenodo record or the CITATION.cff file. Elsewhere, a credit with a link is enough:
Data from the Australian Government AI Tracker, a project by Dr Ben Swift at the ANU School of Cybernetics.
The data changes daily, so give the date you read any figure you quote.
Licensing
The scraper and this site are MIT-licensed. The dataset, including the downloads, is CC BY 4.0. The statement text belongs to the agencies; most is CC BY 4.0, but check each agency’s site.
121 statements, 128 changes of substance across 431 captures, 121 profiled. Built 13 Oct 2026 from commit d8679e0.