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Deloitte AI Report Not Enough to Halt Government Contracts

Australian Financial Review

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6 Oct 2025
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8 Oct 2025, 12:23 pm

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Even the department which received Deloitte’s error-riddled AI-generated report has signed a new contract with the firm since.

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The article highlights a controversy involving Deloitte's use of artificial intelligence to generate a report for the Australian government, which was filled with errors and fake references. Despite the report's shortcomings, the government has continued to commission work from Deloitte, indicating a possible over-reliance on major consulting firms. This situation underscores concerns about the oversight and accountability of AI-generated content in government contracts. While the article touches on AI policy issues, it does not delve deeply into existential or catastrophic AI risks.

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CompaniesRear WindowPrint articleOct 8, 2025 – 5.00amSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginIt’s been more than three months since Deloitte handed the government a report littered with errors and fake references. And six weeks sinceThe Australian Financial Reviewraised concernsabout it.Then last Friday, Deloitte admitted it hadused artificial intelligenceto create the report, despite charging the government $440,000 for it.Loading...Hannah Woottonis a Rear Window columnist, based in Melbourne.Connect withHannahonTwitter.EmailHannahathannah.wootton@afr.comSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreRear WindowConsultingBig four consultantsDeloitteAIConsulting clientsRegulationFetching latest articlesHow we shot the 2025 Power issueMatthew DrummondAustralia’s 10 most powerful people in 2025The year’s top 10 power players (that aren’t people)‘Superstars’ change jobs roughly every two years, says this CEOSally Patten, Iona Rennie and Rachael Bolton‘It was coming out in my sleep’: How the Medibank CEO combats stressFinally, women are leading some of the biggest deals in the countryWhat to exercise in now that leggings are deadEugenie Kelly5 places to run in South-East AsiaNeed a reboot? We road test the real-life White Lotus retreatInsta-famous fitness app founders appoint tech veteran as new CEOYolanda RedrupInside a Young Rich Lister’s million-dollar home wellness spaceHow two waiters turned $500 into a global events company