What the statements say

Version 2.0 of the Policy for the responsible use of AI in government took effect on 15 December 2025. Agencies must set a strategic position on AI within six months, and set up a use-case register and mandatory staff training within twelve. Separately, the APS AI Plan asked each agency to appoint a Chief AI Officer by July 2026. This page reads all 121 statements against these requirements, as of 13 Oct 2026. The figures count what the statements say, as read by a language model.

How these figures are made
Cover all eight Standard elements
67 of 121
Say a Chief AI Officer is in place
39 (+1 planned)
Say they use no public-facing AI
59 (49%)
Commitments dropped between versions
128
No update seen since v2.0
8
Say they were last updated over a year ago
7

What the statements report, month by month

The share of tracked statements that report each item, by month. Dashed lines mark the policy’s start, its six- and twelve-month deadlines, and the AI Plan’s Chief AI Officer deadline. Agencies joined the tracker in waves (mostly in November 2025 and June 2026), so a rise can come from new statements rather than new text. Open “Figures” under a chart for the counts.

Chief AI Officer in place 39/121 · 32%
Chief AI Officer in place, share of tracked statements by month Rises from 2% in Nov 25 to 32% in Oct 26. Figures in the table below. 0% 50% 100% Policy v2.0 takes effect Strategic position on AI due (policy, 6 months) Chief AI Officers due (APS AI Plan, July 2026) Nov 25 Jan 26 Oct 26
Figures
MonthStatementsTracked
Nov 25 1 61
Dec 25 1 64
Jan 26 1 64
Feb 26 6 83
Mar 26 11 83
Apr 26 15 88
May 26 19 90
June 26 27 113
July 26 31 117
Aug 26 33 118
Sept 26 38 121
Oct 26 39 121
Chief AI Officer in place or planned 40/121 · 33%
Chief AI Officer in place or planned, share of tracked statements by month Rises from 2% in Nov 25 to 33% in Oct 26. Figures in the table below. 0% 50% 100% Policy v2.0 takes effect Strategic position on AI due (policy, 6 months) Chief AI Officers due (APS AI Plan, July 2026) Nov 25 Jan 26 Oct 26
Figures
MonthStatementsTracked
Nov 25 1 61
Dec 25 1 64
Jan 26 1 64
Feb 26 8 83
Mar 26 14 83
Apr 26 20 88
May 26 24 90
June 26 31 113
July 26 33 117
Aug 26 34 118
Sept 26 39 121
Oct 26 40 121
Strategic position on AI (in place or planned) 21/121 · 17%
Strategic position on AI (in place or planned), share of tracked statements by month Rises from 10% in Nov 25 to 17% in Oct 26. Figures in the table below. 0% 50% 100% Policy v2.0 takes effect Strategic position on AI due (policy, 6 months) Chief AI Officers due (APS AI Plan, July 2026) Nov 25 Jan 26 Oct 26
Figures
MonthStatementsTracked
Nov 25 6 61
Dec 25 6 64
Jan 26 6 64
Feb 26 10 83
Mar 26 12 83
Apr 26 16 88
May 26 16 90
June 26 19 113
July 26 19 117
Aug 26 22 118
Sept 26 22 121
Oct 26 21 121
AI use-case register in place 32/121 · 26%
AI use-case register in place, share of tracked statements by month Rises from 15% in Nov 25 to 26% in Oct 26. Figures in the table below. 0% 50% 100% Policy v2.0 takes effect Strategic position on AI due (policy, 6 months) Chief AI Officers due (APS AI Plan, July 2026) Nov 25 Jan 26 Oct 26
Figures
MonthStatementsTracked
Nov 25 9 61
Dec 25 9 64
Jan 26 9 64
Feb 26 12 83
Mar 26 14 83
Apr 26 15 88
May 26 15 90
June 26 24 113
July 26 27 117
Aug 26 29 118
Sept 26 32 121
Oct 26 32 121
Mandatory staff training 55/121 · 45%
Mandatory staff training, share of tracked statements by month Rises from 33% in Nov 25 to 45% in Oct 26. Figures in the table below. 0% 50% 100% Policy v2.0 takes effect Strategic position on AI due (policy, 6 months) Chief AI Officers due (APS AI Plan, July 2026) Nov 25 Jan 26 Oct 26
Figures
MonthStatementsTracked
Nov 25 20 61
Dec 25 22 64
Jan 26 22 64
Feb 26 37 83
Mar 26 36 83
Apr 26 39 88
May 26 41 90
June 26 49 113
July 26 51 117
Aug 26 52 118
Sept 26 55 121
Oct 26 55 121
References policy v2.0 21/121 · 17%
References policy v2.0, share of tracked statements by month Rises from 0% in Nov 25 to 17% in Oct 26. Figures in the table below. 0% 50% 100% Policy v2.0 takes effect Strategic position on AI due (policy, 6 months) Chief AI Officers due (APS AI Plan, July 2026) Nov 25 Jan 26 Oct 26
Figures
MonthStatementsTracked
Nov 25 0 61
Dec 25 0 64
Jan 26 0 64
Feb 26 5 83
Mar 26 10 83
Apr 26 12 88
May 26 16 90
June 26 20 113
July 26 20 117
Aug 26 21 118
Sept 26 21 121
Oct 26 21 121
Commits to annual review 89/121 · 74%
Commits to annual review, share of tracked statements by month Falls from 77% in Nov 25 to 74% in Oct 26. Figures in the table below. 0% 50% 100% Policy v2.0 takes effect Strategic position on AI due (policy, 6 months) Chief AI Officers due (APS AI Plan, July 2026) Nov 25 Jan 26 Oct 26
Figures
MonthStatementsTracked
Nov 25 47 61
Dec 25 48 64
Jan 26 48 64
Feb 26 63 83
Mar 26 59 83
Apr 26 62 88
May 26 63 90
June 26 84 113
July 26 88 117
Aug 26 88 118
Sept 26 89 121
Oct 26 89 121
Commits to no public-facing AI without a human 18/121 · 15%
Commits to no public-facing AI without a human, share of tracked statements by month Falls from 20% in Nov 25 to 15% in Oct 26. Figures in the table below. 0% 50% 100% Policy v2.0 takes effect Strategic position on AI due (policy, 6 months) Chief AI Officers due (APS AI Plan, July 2026) Nov 25 Jan 26 Oct 26
Figures
MonthStatementsTracked
Nov 25 12 61
Dec 25 12 64
Jan 26 12 64
Feb 26 15 83
Mar 26 15 83
Apr 26 14 88
May 26 15 90
June 26 19 113
July 26 17 117
Aug 26 17 118
Sept 26 18 121
Oct 26 18 121

Commitments dropped between versions

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Promises, limits and safeguards that one version of a statement made and the next didn’t, newest first. A promise the next version reports done is kept, not dropped, and is not listed. Some were only reworded (why), so each links to the diff.

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Other answers dropped between versions

39

Uses, domains, tools, officers, training and compliance statements that one version mentioned and the next didn’t. A tool may have been renamed, and a use may continue without being mentioned.

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Who is in charge

39 statements say a Chief AI Officer is in place and 1 say one is planned. Most don’t say which job holds each role; those that do are counted below (job titles only, never names).

Accountable official

  1. 23 Chief Information Officer
  2. 10 Chief Operating Officer
  3. 5 Chief Data Officer
  4. 2 AI Accountable Official
  5. 2 Chief Digital Officer
  6. 2 Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer
  7. 1 AASB-AUASB Managing Director; AASB-AUASB Chief Operating Officer; AASB-AUASB Business Services Manager
  8. 1 AASB-AUASB Managing Director; Chief Operating Officer; AASB-AUASB Business Services Manager

Chief AI Officer

  1. 3 Chief AI Officer
  2. 2 Chief Operating Officer
  3. 1 Assistant Director-General, Technology
  4. 1 Assistant Inspector-General, Agency Oversight
  5. 1 Chief Data and AI Officer
  6. 1 Chief Data and Analytics Officer
  7. 1 Chief Data Officer
  8. 1 Chief Digital and Data Officer

AI and the public

The Standard asks each agency to say whether the public may interact with, or be significantly affected by, its AI without a human in the loop.

Say they use no public-facing AI
59 (49%)
Say they use it with human review
27 (22%)
Say they use it, without stating human review
7 (6%)
Don’t address it, or not clearly
28 (23%)
Commit to a human intermediary
18 (15%)

The Standard’s eight elements

The DTA’s Standard for AI transparency statements lists what every statement must contain. 67 of 121 cover all eight. A date shown on the page counts as a “date last updated”.

  • Intentions behind AI use 115 (95%)
  • Use classified by DTA usage pattern or domain 111 (92%)
  • Public-facing use addressed 100 (83%)
  • Monitoring and protection measures 115 (95%)
  • Compliance with the policy 110 (91%)
  • Compliance with legislation 98 (81%)
  • Date last updated 108 (89%)
  • Public contact 110 (91%)

Dates and updates

The Standard requires statements to be “reviewed and updated” at least once a year and whenever the agency’s approach to AI changes, and to say when they were last updated. 18 statements give no date.

No update seen since policy v2.0 8

Statements we have watched since before 15 December 2025 with no stated date or observed change after it. Another 8 were first tracked after that date and give no date, so we can’t tell.

Say they were last updated over a year ago 7

The statement’s own last-updated date is more than a year before 13 Oct 2026.