Andrew Charlton on Governments should fund open-source AI …

Andrew Charlton

Australian Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy

The Government has built in response: an Australian AI Safety Institute, up and running, staffed with world-class expertise, and already inside the engine rooms of frontier AI, testing the most powerful models on the planet.

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Andrew Charlton, “AI Safety Forum,” July 7, 2026.

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Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods.

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