Comment by Alexander Yen

Australia and the US’s Western allies face an incentive and opportunity structure that may promote, and enable, the less instead of the more destructive options. [...] A government that believes access to American frontier models will remain available has little reason to run the political risks of stealing it. [...] An American promise to employ its AI capabilities in defence of an ally may therefore be a poor substitute for giving that ally access to them. [...] Australian policymakers therefore have an interest in ensuring that access to strategically important AI becomes part of the alliance bargain before dependence is entrenched.