Backing Australia’s AI Growth
ResetData Joint-CEO Marcel Zalloua appeared before the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence this month to present our position on building and retaining Australia’s sovereign AI capability.
AI presents an enormous opportunity for Australian businesses, workers and the economy. But sovereignty is about more than storing data onshore. It also means considering who owns and operates the infrastructure, who controls the compute, where models are trained and run, and which jurisdiction applies.
In our submission, ResetData put forward five recommendations:
Recognise sovereign AI infrastructure as a strategic Australian capability.
Use Commonwealth demand to help sustain domestic capability.
Assess sovereignty by control, not location alone.
Extend sovereign considerations across the full AI lifecycle.
Support Australian capability through real-world use.
Ultimately, the question is where the value created by AI ends up. Australia has an opportunity to turn its data, research and expertise into Australian intellectual property, applications, businesses and economic value.
Our position on Australia’s AI future has also featured in recent media coverage:
Broadcast and podcast
News24: Interview with Marcel Zalloua
Business Now with Ross Greenwood: Business Now | 7 October (from about 17:01)
Articles
The Australian: Australia faces catastrophic bioweapon threat as autonomous AI accelerates rogue attacks, inquiry told
ABC Radio, The World Today: AI inquiry probes data sovereignty
Lawyerly: Macquarie, ResetData say AI sovereignty means more than data centres
InnovationAus: ‘Get serious’ on sovereign AI, tech leaders urge Canberra