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Matthew Jefferies is a workforce strategist, AI practitioner, and author of Artificial Leverage. He spent 26 years inside national institutions and writes about the collision between AI acceleration and institutional inertia.
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Matthew Jefferies is a workforce strategist, AI practitioner, and the author of Artificial Leverage: Mental Models and Workflows for Mastering Generative AI. Over 26 years inside one of Australia's largest national institutions, he delivered strategic assessments to senior leadership and developed expertise in workforce strategy, organisational adaptation, and strategic analysis.
Since late 2022, Matthew has been a daily practitioner of frontier AI systems, developing the mental model framework that became Artificial Leverage. His 10-part Outpaced investigation examines how AI acceleration threatens Australia's workforce, economy, and institutional capability.
He holds a Masters in Strategic People Management and writes at matthewjefferies.com about the gap between what AI can do and what organisations are doing about it.
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AI workforce transformation in government and defence
Institutional adaptation to exponential technology change
Mental models for AI-era decision making
Career trajectory disruption and professional positioning
Five Eyes and Australian AI strategy
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