{"id":238067,"date":"2026-05-01T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/the-aussie-ai-paradox-high-use-low-trust-sceptical-adopters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:20:12","slug":"the-aussie-ai-paradox-high-use-low-trust-sceptical-adopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/the-aussie-ai-paradox-high-use-low-trust-sceptical-adopters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aussie AI paradox: High use, low trust &#8216;sceptical adopters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/australians-are-racing-to-adopt-ai-theres-just-one-big-catch\/\">The Aussie AI paradox: High use, low trust &#8216;sceptical adopters&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/australians-are-racing-to-adopt-ai-theres-just-one-big-catch\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/australians-are-racing-to-adopt-ai-theres-just-one-big-catch\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-01 18:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com.au\">www.forbes.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished on\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 2, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-while-the-ai-race-is-fundamentally-between-the-us-and-china-ranking-number-1-and-2-in-research-australia-sports-the-third-highest-density-of-ai-phds-globally-but-a-new-study-reveals-that-while-we-re-big-on-implementing-ai-the-trust-is-not-there\">While the AI race is fundamentally between the US and China \u2013 ranking number 1 and 2 in research \u2013 Australia sports the third highest density of AI PhDs globally. But a new study reveals that while we\u2019re big on implementing AI, the trust is not there.<\/h5>\n<p>While the AI race is fundamentally between the US and China \u2013 ranking number 1 and 2 in research \u2013 Australia sports the third highest density of AI PhDs globally. A new Stanford HAI report also reveals that we are big on implementing AI, but low on trusting it. Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, the Australian consumer\u2019s relationship with artificial intelligence is defined by significant use \u2013 and minimal trust. <\/p>\n<p>Data from the recently released\u00a02026 Stanford\u00a0HAI\u00a0AI Index Report\u00a0reveals that while nearly half of the nation now utilises generative AI regularly, only\u00a036 per cent\u00a0say they actually trust the technology. Australians are the sixth most active, intentional users of AI globally, behind Singapore, India, the UAE, Indonesia and Thailand. Our usage grew 12 per cent year over year, the highest anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, just 36 per cent of Aussies trust AI, according to HAI\u2019s global AI trust rankings. This discrepancy between usage and trust makes us the leading \u2018sceptical adopters\u2019 of AI globally.<\/p>\n<p>It is a phenomenon that leading Australian academic Toby Walsh, a contributor to the HAI research, calls a bizarre paradox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are using it to draft our emails, to code our startups, and to manage our schedules. But we are adopting the tools while remaining fundamentally sceptical of the systems,\u201d Walsh said during a briefing at Canberra\u2019s National Press Club.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-third-highest-concentration-of-ai-phds\">Third highest concentration of AI PhDs<\/h5>\n<p>According to the research, we are third in the world when it comes to AI PhD density, behind the US and China. Half of those AI-focused doctorates were educated and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/australians-are-racing-to-adopt-ai-theres-just-one-big-catch\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aussie AI paradox: High use, low trust &#8216;sceptical adopters&#8217; https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/australians-are-racing-to-adopt-ai-theres-just-one-big-catch\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-01 18:39:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2187031575.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-238067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238069,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238067\/revisions\/238069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}