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Anthropic Signs Safety Pact with Australian Government Amidst Calls for Greater AI Regulation

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AI company Anthropic has signed a safety pact with the government, agreeing to rely on renewables to power energy intensive data centres. But there are still calls for greater regulation on the technology, which threatens to revolutionise and overhaul how our society works.

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This development marks a significant milestone in Australian AI policy as frontier AI laboratory Anthropic enters into a formal safety agreement with the federal government. The pact focuses on mitigating the environmental impacts of intensive data centers while positioning the government to engage deeper with creators of large-scale models. Though it addresses immediate energy concerns, the arrangement reflects broader domestic calls for mandatory guardrails to manage the transformative and potentially catastrophic risks associated with systemic AI deployment. This collaboration is a critical step in aligning Australian governance with global efforts to secure frontier AI capabilities.