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culture and innovation

Greens will regulate AI for the public good

The Green Party has announced they will regulate AI to protect New Zealanders’ creativity, data and jobs and ensure that the benefits of AI are shared and not captured by the massive technology companies running the AI sector. “Artificial Intelligence should work for people and the planet – we don’t work for AI. The Greens will regulate it responsibly, for the public good,” says Green Party Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick. Our regulation will ensure that: AI will not replace human and democratic decision-making Our data...

Posted at October 12, 2026 12:44 PM by Chlöe Swarbrick

services and systems

Green Party pledge to remove AI from welfare payment decisions

The Green Party pledges that artificial intelligence and automated decision making will not be used for payment decisions in the welfare system, such as cancelling, suspending, or reducing welfare payments, or imposing benefit sanctions when it is in Government. “The Coalition’s push for automated decision making has already proven disastrous by treating tens of thousands of people like test subjects and leaving them financially vulnerable,” says Green Party Social Development Spokesperson, Ricardo Menendez March. “The Ministry of Social Development's report...

Posted at September 11, 2026 1:11 PM by Ricardo Menéndez March

services and systems

Government clears the way to automate decisions about people's survival

The Green Party is condemning the Government's move to hand decisions on benefits over to automated systems, warning it will leave more people in hardship without the support they are legally entitled to."Handing decisions about people's ability to survive to a machine is a deliberate choice to make it harder for people to get the help they need," says Green Party social development spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March.  The Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill will be introduced today for its first...

Posted at May 29, 2026 11:07 AM by Ricardo Menéndez March