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Comment by Hannah Merchant

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Seasonal Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI, writing on Australian frontier-AI access.
Australia needs to move from accepting whatever access arrangements the market and the alliance deliver by default, to deliberate orientation toward securing two conditions for frontier AI access: unconditional capability parity with what the United States has access to domestically and reliable US provision of domestic inference capability for sensitive deployments.
AI Verified (Aug 20, 2026)
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Hannah Merchant, “Sovereignty through managed dependence: Australia’s strategy for frontier AI access,” United States Studies Centre, August 20, 2026.
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Democracies should share frontier AI models with allies
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AI Verified Seeking guaranteed US frontier-model and inference access for Australia directly supports allied sharing of frontier AI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago
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AI Verified Merchant advocates secure US provision of frontier AI access to Australia; recorded answer for matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago

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AI Verified USSC's 20 Aug 2026 report by Hannah Merchant contains this passage verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago
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