Cam Wilson

That is the sense of how seriously they're taking it.

They're saying, we need expertise focusing on this, advising us, so we can do something about this.

That is their pitch to say, if we want to see uptake of AI, like the government has spoken about in the budget, the case from the government is that

The companies need to build a social license in Australia for people to feel like they can trust these products to get their benefits.

It's a good question, and it's quite an about-face for the Trump administration.

The Trump administration approach from the start was, let's go.

For us, this is a business thing.

It's a national security thing.

We want to beat China.

We want to make sure we have all of this development in America and not elsewhere.

Now they're saying, we want to see it before you roll this out so we can understand how much of an issue this is and how powerful it is.

The fact that they have gone from saying, yes, yes, let's go to, we need to pump the brakes just a little bit.

We need to have a little bit of warning.

I think, you know, shows that they have looked at the stuff up close and seem to be accepting some of the claims of there are real potential risks for this technology if it falls into the wrong hands.

You know, Australia does actually have quite a bit of leverage in this way.

Not only do Australians quite like it when government steps in, typically, compared to other countries, we also have a bit of a history of regulating technology more than other countries.

Australia's approach to social media with the Online Safety Act and then the teen social media ban shows that we're willing to go a little bit further

Australia has this advantage where many of these top AI companies are looking to find new places to have serious home bases.

So companies like Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI are all looking to make serious investments here.

But when they want to do that, Australia has this choice.