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[ But not quite yet.
[ In the current issue of the ACS news publication, one story suggests
Accenture believes it can get away with AI (in lieu of recent graduates
running very hard and pretending to be more experienced than they
actually are); and another story shows brand-name consultancy Deloitte
caught out failing to quality-assure their wildly expensive reports. ]
Deloitte to refund government over AI errors
Generative AI produced fake references, quotes in report.
Denham Sadler
Information Age
Oct 07 2025 12:19 AM
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/deloitte-to-refund-government-over-ai-errors.html
> ...
> The original report included 12 references to a made-up report
supposedly by a law professor at the University of Sydney, and two
references to a non-existent report by a Swedish professor.
>...
> The first iteration of the report also included an incorrect
reference to a court decision in a major Robodebt case, and the
misspelling of a judge’s name that also included a made-up quote
attributed to them.
Learn AI or get out: Accenture
Tech consultant to ‘exit’ staff who cannot upskill.
Denham Sadler
Information Age
Oct 06 2025 11:17 PM
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/learn-ai-or-get-out--accenture-.html
> ...
> [ Accenture ] has already slashed 11,000 workers in the three months
to August, including 10 per cent of its Australian staff [ in Round 2,
after 9% in Round 1 ], and warned it will “exit on a compression
timeline” [ frogmarch?] any employees who cannot be reskilled in AI.
> ...
> The job cuts follow Accenture’s billion-dollar acquisition of
Australian cyber firm CyberCX which will add 1,400 staff and hundreds of
banking, government and infrastructure clients to its local business.
> ...
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