China has an AI crisis plan. Australia should, too

(Emily Grundy and Greg Sadler – ASPI The Strategist) China is the only country with a national-level plan for responding to an AI crisis. Australia’s National AI Plan, released in December, commits the country to dealing with AI incidents in its existing crisis management framework. Without a tailored approach, Australia could default to cyber crisis arrangements that are not well-suited to the specific threats, stakeholders and response mechanisms relevant to an AI crisis. Good implementation of the National AI Plan requires updating the Australian Government Crisis Management Framework (AGCMF) to explicitly cover these situations and creating an AI crisis plan to handle them. The AI crisis plan would facilitate the National Coordination Mechanism (NCM) by bringing AI companies, experts and data centre operators to the table to help the government effectively handle the crisis. An AI crisis is where a frontier AI system is involved in a threat to public safety or national security. – China has an AI crisis plan. Australia should, too | The Strategist