Screen Australia AI Transparency Statement (stakeholder provisions)

Summary

Last updated 10 March 2026, Screen Australia's AI Transparency Statement sets out the agency's requirements for how stakeholders, including funding applicants and awardees, must handle AI use. All funding applications collect information on AI use, and any use must align with Screen Australia's Terms of Trade. The statement is grounded in the September 2024 AI Guiding Principles and provides the Australian public-funder counterpart to the BFI's equivalent guidance. For animation educators, it represents the operative disclosure and compliance standard for Australian industry practice.

Implications for animation education

Australian animation programs preparing students for funded production work should treat Screen Australia's declaration requirement and Terms of Trade alignment as the operative professional standard. Students applying for development or production funding through Screen Australia, or working on projects that receive such funding, need to understand both the disclosure obligation and the values framework behind it. The September 2024 AI Guiding Principles provide the fuller values context. Programs can use the Screen Australia and BFI guidance documents together as a comparative study in how two major public screen funders in different jurisdictions are converging on similar disclosure-based frameworks rather than prohibition.

Related items

• Creative Australia Principles on Generative AI and Creative Work
• BFI guidance on AI use in funding applications and funded projects

Source

Source: Screen Australia ↗ (Policy Text)

Primary document: screenaustralia.gov.au/corporate-documents/policies/ai-transparency-statement ↗