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Governor Bullock says the RBA is exploring AI's impact on the economy

Australian Central Bank Governor Mitchelle Bullock has confirmed that the bank is exploring the impact of AI on the ￰0￱ said they are examining the potential implications for inflation and employment during the 60th Shann Memorial Lecture in ￰1￱ urged policymakers to remain alert to all possible impacts as AI adoption ￰2￱ acknowledged that technological change has continuously reshaped the labor market, noting that AI is no ￰3￱ to her, some roles may be changed or displaced altogether with new ones ￰4￱ deploys AI and data tools to boost research Governor Mitchelle Bullock outlined in a speech the steps being taken at the Central Bank to explore AI’s impact on the ￰5￱ RBA has acquired an enterprise-grade GPU that will aid the development of AI-driven analytical ￰6￱ has also adopted a hybrid model that utilizes secure cloud and on-premise data ￰7￱ confirmed that about 450 employees are now actively coding using AI-assistant ￰8￱ Bank has adopted a pilot program called RBAPubChat, an internal chatbot that surfaces insights from nearly 20,000 analytical documents ranging from petabytes of ￰9￱ Governor revealed that they are conducting efficiency improvements in research and analytics, but not to make policy.

“To be clear, we are not using AI to formulate or set monetary policy or any other policy.” -Mitchelle Bullock, RBA Governor RBA’s data holdings include more than 125,000 time series data, with 5,000 being updated daily, adding roughly 100,000 new data points ￰10￱ are also around 7.5 petabytes of structured and unstructured data covering more than 200 years, including archival ￰11￱ said a digitization program exists to preserve and search these records to generate ￰12￱ highlighted several tools that help extract qualitative insights from quantitative ￰13￱ mentioned the RBA’s liaison program, which has logged over 22,000 bank ￰14￱ revealed that they use a secure natural processing language (NLP) model to extract sentiment related to signals, pricing, wages, and ￰15￱ says AI will reshape the payments and labor market According to Bullock, the liaison-based indicators can improve wage growth nowcasts versus a traditional Phillips ￰16￱ revealed that their recent liaison-based survey showed firms have invested heavily in cybersecurity and cloud throughout the last five years and plan to continue spending alongside AI and automation in the next three ￰17￱ liaison survey revealed that many firms anticipate AI will first augment roles, potentially increasing numbers before easing down as adoption ￰18￱ noted that demand will shift from lower to higher-skilled ￰19￱ RBA also migrated its IT infrastructure to the cloud to enhance resilience in processing over 348 million domestic payments ($846 billion) and 1 million international payments ($20 billion) in the fiscal year 2024/2025.

She noted an improvement with fast settlement service supporting a new payment platform for real-time ￰20￱ development follows the 2023 central bank digital currency pilot program with the DFCRC, which tested real asset transactions using the CBDC claim on the ￰21￱ also noted that the follow-up project, Acacia, is now in the build and test phase and is examining wholesale tokenized asset ￰22￱ project examines multiple distributed ledger platforms and settlement assets such as stablecoins, bank deposit tokens, a pilot CBDC, and existing settlement ￰23￱ Bullock said the bank is strengthening risk governance with a new model and board of governance to balance innovation with resilience and financial stability amid technological ￰24￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰25￱ in?

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