Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it?

Anthropic chief executive, Dario Amodei, has warned that rogue AI agents, like those from OpenAI that escaped their test environment in July, are ‘capable of taking over the entire internet’ within six to 12 months. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

There’s nothing like a threat of human extinction to focus the mind.

The threat of AI to the existence of humanity has long been raised.