Our submission to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Australia will only shape how frontier AI develops if it is part of building it. Our first submission sets out why, and what hosting training compute here would make possible.
The Australian Council on AI Strategy has made a submission to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence.
Australia is making consequential decisions about artificial intelligence — what it builds, what it regulates, what it adopts and what it declines — on a compressed timetable and against a thin domestic evidence base. Few of the people making those decisions have seen the frontier of the technology first-hand, and the debate is narrower than the decisions require.
The submission argues that Australia is only likely to have a influence on how AI develops if it is materially embedded in the frontier supply chain, by hosting training compute here. It sets out the positions that would open to an Australian government that did, across national security, AI safety capability and the domestic AI workforce, and what the Committee could usefully examine.
We have offered to appear before the Committee, and to make independent international expertise in frontier AI measurement, evaluation and forecasting available to it.
Australia can write the rules for frontier AI development or inherit them. The difference rests on whether we are embedded in the frontier AI supply chain. Those decisions are being made now.
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