AI Safety Australia
2024-10-31 — 2026-07-09
Wherein the Australian AI Safety Landscape Is Surveyed, With Senate Inquiries, Public Attitude Research, and a Directory of Local Organisations and Researchers Being Assembled.
adversarial
AI safety
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
security
Southeast Asia
tail risk
technology
Placeholder, TBD soon.
1 Attitudes
- Survey Assessing Risks from Artificial Intelligence
- Australians are concerned about AI risks and expect strong government action
- Survey Assessing Risks from AI | AI Governance in Australia
- 80% of Australians think AI risk is a global priority. The government needs to step up - Research - University of Queensland
2 Governance
Final report – Parliament of AustraliaOn 26 March 2024, the Senate resolved that a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), be established to inquire into and report on the opportunities and impacts for Australia arising out of the uptake of AI technologies in Australia,
3 Fellow travellers
4 Incoming
- Tomáš Gavenčial
- Fernando Boretti, kinda
- wassname (Michael J Clark) — interesting work on AI ethics
- Hana Dinh - Neither Horizon
- James Gauci - Cadent
- Sydney AI Safety Space
- Gigascale Laboratories / Stephen Elliott
- Michael Timothy Bennett | Artificial General Intelligence
- UWA Tech & Policy Lab : The University of Western Australia
- Australian AI Safety Forum 2024 | Charting Australia’s course in AI Safety and Governance. 7th-8th November 2024, Sydney, Australia. (see the forum post)
- Gradient Institute
- The Good Ancestors Project
- Australians for AI Safety
- AI Safety ANZ
- Michael Noetel PhD
- 80% of Australians think AI risk is a global priority. / Survey Assessing Risks from AI | AI Governance in Australia
- Beacon — Fiscal Sponsorship for Global Catastrophic Risk Projects
5 References
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training. 2025. “Digital Transformation.” House of Representatives Committee Report.
OpenAI. 2025. “AI in Australia: OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint.” Technical Report.
Resources. 2025. “Australia’s Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem: Growth and Opportunities | Department of Industry Science and Resources.” Report. Https://Www.industry.gov.au/Node/94815.
Saeri, Noetel, and Graham. 2024. “Survey Assessing Risks from Artificial Intelligence (Technical Report).” SSRN Scholarly Paper.
Wilshire. 2024. “AI and the Great Retrenchment.”