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Petitions: Artificial Intelligence (EN10188)

Parliament of Australia

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Date Published
25 Mar 2024
Priority Score
4
Australian
Yes
Created
16 Sept 2026, 05:22 am

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This parliamentary petition advocates for a bilateral Australia-United States Trusted AI Access Agreement to secure reliable access to advanced frontier AI models. The proposal emphasizes that Australian industries and government agencies face risks from sudden foreign-access restrictions or broad export controls that could disrupt critical infrastructure and national security. By proposing strict security, export-control, and misuse-prevention standards, the petition seeks to integrate Australia into a secure tier of global AI governance, directly addressing the geopolitical dimensions of catastrophic risk reduction and technical sovereign capability.

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Artificial Intelligence Advanced artificial intelligence systems are becoming important for cybersecurity, research, education, health, public administration, business productivity, and national security. Sudden foreign-access restrictions on major United States AI models could disrupt Australian users, companies, universities, government agencies, and critical industries, even where Australia poses no specific security risk. Recent overseas access restrictions demonstrate that, in the future, allied countries could be affected by broad foreign-national rules, even when they are not the intended security target. We therefore ask the House to call on the Australian Government to pursue a bilateral Australia-United States Trusted AI Access Agreement. The agreement should seek to ensure that Australian citizens, residents, businesses, universities, research institutions, critical industries, and government departments are not automatically denied access to advanced United States AI systems under broad foreign-national restrictions, where Australia meets agreed security, export-control, identity-verification, auditing, and misuse-prevention standards. The agreement should also provide protected access arrangements for Australian public-sector, cybersecurity, defence, health, emergency management, research, education, and critical infrastructure uses. from three citizens (Petition No. EN10188)