We need to hedge against controlling China and messy US on AI: Hello Japan! |
We need to hedge against controlling China and messy US on AI: Hello Japan!
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Artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology we will ever create. With Japan’s pro-industry Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visiting Australia this week, we have a chance to bind our efforts with those of a natural friend in a field that will determine which countries carve out secure and prosperous futures and which limp into this new age.
The Albanese government should lean into this opportunity as far as Japan is willing to go. The signs are promising. Takaichi and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will sign an economic security agreement that is expected to mention AI co-operation. We have everything to gain by linking arms with a regional neighbour whose strategic outlook is the closest to Australia’s of any Asian nation and which has proven, when it puts its mind to it, that it can move technological and industrial mountains.
AI is dominated to a dangerous degree by two tech superpowers, the United States and China, which also happen to be the 21st century’s history-defining strategic rivals. Such concentration – particularly in frontier models such as Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s GPT-5 and China’s DeepSeek – is not healthy for the rest of us.
China is looking to dominate AI and all the surrounding technologies from semiconductors to applications in a way that frees it of dependencies but makes others dependent on it. Beijing has shown it is willing to restrict access to its critical materials and technologies to bend another country to its........