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Employers are facing a “tug of war” with staff about how to best share the hours of time saved each week thanks to artificial intelligence as more companies use platforms like Microsoft’s Copilot to remove “drudgery”.

And Australia’s biggest telco, Telstra, is attempting to convince some employees – particularly software engineers – that they are not “cheating” using Copilot, which Microsoft launched a year ago.

Workers with superannuation fund Cbus Super have secured a set of landmark provisions to protect employees from disruption in the artificial intelligence age.

In the new enterprise agreement, now in place to June 2027, the union-affiliated fund must consult with staff on the implications of generative AI models such as ChatGPT in the workplace and must notify workers whose roles are “materially impacted” by AI.

Student visa holders are responsible for the large majority of costly student misconduct cases driven by creative cheating methods such as artificial intelligence, with one university investigating 10 times the number of international students than domestic students.

Let me know what you think — lynchj@theaustralian.com.au