Australian AI Community¶
Purpose: Connect with Australian AI safety groups, research institutions and international resources Audience: Researchers, community members, professionals seeking AI safety networks | Time: 15-20 minutes browsing
This page provides curated Australian and international resources for AI safety, governance and community engagement. SafeAI-Aus focuses on Australian context while pointing you to relevant global expertise.
About this resource list
Focus: Australian AI community groups, digital rights organisations and relevant international AI safety resources Maintenance: Resources were last checked on 22 August 2026 and are periodically reviewed for accuracy. If you find broken links or outdated information, please let us know. Not endorsements: Inclusion doesn't constitute endorsement of all positions. These are starting points for your own investigation.
Australian AI Community & Safety Groups¶
AI Safety and Alignment¶
- AI Safety ANZ — Australia and New Zealand AI safety community with regional groups in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Wellington, Canberra and Auckland
- AI Safety Australia — Introductory hub for Australian advanced-AI safety research, policy and community resources, maintained by Good Ancestors
- Good Ancestors — Australian charity and policy organisation advocating for safe and well-governed AI, pandemic prevention and long-term government decision-making
- CAM Initiative — Australian governance initiative publishing the Caelestis corpus for public inspection and audit, with related VIGIL evidence-handling infrastructure. Caelestis uses a special custodial licence, not a general open-source licence; read the licence terms before reuse, adaptation, model-context use or deployment
Digital Rights and Technology Ethics¶
- Electronic Frontiers Australia — Digital rights advocacy, including AI policy
- Digital Rights Watch — Digital rights campaigns and AI accountability
- Australian Privacy Foundation — Privacy advocacy relevant to AI systems
- Centre for Responsible Technology — Australia Institute initiative focused on public-interest technology policy, accountability and the distribution of power
University and Research Groups¶
- CSIRO Artificial Intelligence — Applied AI research, responsible AI capabilities and industry collaboration from Australia's national science agency
- ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) — Cross-disciplinary research on responsible AI decision-making (RMIT-hosted, multi-university)
- Gradient Institute — Independent not-for-profit advancing safe and responsible AI through research and advisory
- ANU Integrated AI Network — Interdisciplinary AI research across computing, science and social domains
International AI Safety Organisations¶
Leading global AI safety organisations with relevant research and resources for Australian context.
AI Safety Research¶
- Anthropic — Public benefit corporation conducting AI safety, alignment, governance and societal-impact research alongside model development
- Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework — Framework for evaluating and mitigating severe risks from frontier AI capabilities
- Redwood Research — Non-profit research on AI control, strategic deception and misalignment risk
- Apollo Research — Research and tools addressing scheming, evaluation, monitoring and governance of frontier AI systems
- Center for AI Safety — Research and field-building focused on societal-scale AI risks
AI Governance Research¶
- Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) — AI governance research and policy
- Centre for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) — AI policy and national security
- AI Now Institute — Social implications of AI, accountability
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