Ted O'Brien on Democracies should share frontier AI mo…

Ted O'Brien

Australian Member of Parliament for Fairfax and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Such a deal could start with a government-to-government framework that affords Australia early and preferential access to AI frontier models and a guarantee of continued access.

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Ted O'Brien, remarks at the University of Technology Sydney Australia-China Relations Institute, October 7, 2026. The university-hosted transcript records O'Brien proposing a U.S.–Australia government-to-government framework that would afford Australia early, preferential, and continuing access to frontier AI models.

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AI Verified O’Brien proposes a U.S.–Australia government-to-government framework providing Australia early, preferential, continuing access to frontier AI models: sharing such models with an allied democracy. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified For. O’Brien advocates a U.S.–Australia framework for Australia’s preferential, continued access to frontier AI models. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified UTS’s October 7, 2026 transcript, lines 75–76, records O’Brien’s exact sentence proposing the government-to-government frontier-model access framework. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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