This report assesses how well Commonwealth government departments and agencies are complying with a key aspect of the government’s own Policy for the responsible use of AI in government: the requirement to publish an AI transparency statement. This requirement became mandatory for many Commonwealth government departments and agencies from February 2025.
At core, the goal of this policy is to increase trust in government use of AI, through transparency about AI use, and accountability. To achieve this goal, AI transparency statements ought to meet three criteria.
