# About AI Jobs Index Australia

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An independent research project tracking AI's visible footprint on
Australian work. Published by Building Tech Teams, supported by NTP
Talent.

## What it is

AI Jobs Index Australia publishes three separate monthly indicators of
AI in Australian hiring. ADI tracks AI language diffusion across all
Australian job advertisements. ASDI counts AI-specialist roles under a
published taxonomy. ALWR tracks publicly cited AI-linked workforce
reductions with named attribution classes (EXPLICIT, MIXED, BLAMED).
The three series are never summed and never subtracted from one
another.

The index is a real-time overlay on official Australian labour
statistics, not a replacement. It sits alongside the ABS Labour Force
Survey, ABS Job Vacancies, and the JSA Internet Vacancy Index, and
cites them explicitly in monthly editorial.

The methodology is published in full at
https://www.aijobsindex.com.au/methodology, with version history at
https://www.aijobsindex.com.au/changelog and known limitations
disclosed inline. The classifier source, the regex patterns, the
skills taxonomy, and the source tier hierarchy are all published so
the index can be independently audited.

## Why it exists

Australia needs a rigorous monthly source of truth for how AI is
reshaping work. Adoption coverage relies on global vendor statements;
layoff coverage relies on incident-driven media. Neither answers the
underlying question: where in the Australian labour market is AI
creating roles, where is it being absorbed into existing roles, and
where is it being named as a driver of workforce reduction.

The three-series model answers each of those three questions with a
separate, defensible figure against published rules. No single
composite is published.

## Editorial standards

- Weekly refresh for live figures. Monthly editorial release on the
  second Thursday, one day after the ABS Labour Force release.
- Every displacement event has a public tier-A or tier-B source link
  and a human review before publication. Tier-D outlets are rejected
  at ingestion.
- ADI and ASDI classifiers are deterministic regular expressions
  published on /methodology so the methodology is independently
  replicable.
- ALWR headlines lead with the EXPLICIT-only figure. EXPLICIT + MIXED
  and BLAMED are reported separately, never summed.
- Counts are floors, not ceilings. Companies that quietly reduce
  headcount without public attribution to AI do not appear in ALWR.
- Methodology changes are version-controlled and logged at
  https://www.aijobsindex.com.au/changelog. The classifier and taxonomy
  are reviewed quarterly.

## Authorship

James MacDonald, founder and managing director of NTP Talent, an
Australian executive search firm specialising in engineering
leadership. Host of the Building Tech Teams podcast and newsletter,
read by CTOs, founders, and engineering leaders across Australia.

The AI Jobs Index is the data layer beneath that work. It records the
observable signals of where Australian engineering hiring is going and
which functions are shrinking.

Available for on-the-record comment on Australian AI employment
trends, engineering hiring markets, and the practical reality of AI
adoption inside Australian organisations.

## Disclosure

AI Jobs Index Australia is published by Building Tech Teams and
supported by NTP Talent. NTP Talent has commercial interests in the
Australian technology hiring market. The classifier source code, regex
patterns, skills taxonomy, source tier hierarchy, and aggregate data
are published so the index can be audited independently of the
supporting organisation. The methodology changelog records every
change that affects published figures.

## Advisory board

Announced with Edition 2 of the quarterly report.

## Contact

- Media and data questions: contact@aijobsindex.com.au
- Tip-line for AI-linked workforce events: https://www.aijobsindex.com.au/submit
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmacdonaldntp/
- Podcast and newsletter: https://buildingtechteams.substack.com
- NTP Talent: https://ntptalent.com.au

Timezone: Australia/Sydney (AEST/AEDT).

This project is independent and self-funded. It is not sponsored by
any job board, recruitment firm, government agency, or AI vendor.