Make the most powerful AI companies disclose their models' risks
Companies building the most capable AI models should have to tell government and the public what their models can do and the risks they pose.
Where it stands
Nothing here yet.
Risks this could address
Who is calling for this
PauseAI Australia
Submission 126 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026) Read it ↗
“The Australian government must insist on real oversight, which should include mandatory disclosure, regular inspections, unfettered investigations of incidents and enforceable shutdown mechanisms for breaches.”
Good Ancestors Policy
Submission 257 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Recommendation 6 Read it ↗
“Create transparency obligations that require developers of the most capable models to disclose what their models can do and their risks.”
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
Submission 282 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026) Read it ↗
“A licensing regime would mandate ongoing transparency over AI products and models available in Australia, including regular auditing of their safety”
Anthropic
Submission 305 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026) Read it ↗
“We support requirements (explored within the Office of AI’s consultation paper on the proposed Australian Standards for AI13) on developers of the most capable models to publish a safety framework, report on catastrophic-risk evaluations at regular intervals”
Kitbag Consulting
Submission 198 to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2026), Policy 14: What Compels Frontier AI Developers to Comply? Read it ↗
“The transparency obligations in Policy 14 must therefore be enforced as conditions of market entry, not as ongoing reporting requirements that assume a cooperative relationship.”