Jim Chalmers: “AI is shaping up to be the biggest economic transformation in our lifetime.”

We can't just sit around and hope the benefits of AI fall into our lap. We have to reach out and take them.

Speaking to the Monthly about inflation and the cost of living, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, says 'all of these rolling shocks for 20 years have been cumulative. And every time it feels like ordinary people are going to get off the mat…

The best way to describe the inflation challenge right now is that we have an inflation challenge in our economy, made much worse by the war.

All of these rolling shocks for 20 years have been cumulative. And every time it feels like ordinary people are going to get off the mat, something else arrives.