Asia-Pacific Leadership Network | Aina Turillazzi
Australia's defence transformation is actively integrating Artificial Intelligence across surveillance, targeting, command, and logistics systems, particularly under the 2024 National Defence Strategy and Integrated Investment Program. While AI promises to strengthen decision advantage and deterrence, its rapid adoption also introduces new escalation and perception risks in crisis settings. The crucial policy challenge involves ensuring AI systems perform reliably under high-pressure scenarios, rather than merely slowing their deployment. To achieve a more controllable AI-enabled force, four strategic shifts are imperative. These include building “decision advantage with brakes” into AI-enabled decision support systems by mandating a “slow mode” and auditable provenance, treating OneDefence as a prerequisite for higher-risk AI applications to ensure data interoperability, signalling restraint through selective transparency on AI usage principles, and fixing the transition to capability via fast software acquisition pathways, operational pull-through, and a robust people pipeline to ensure technical competence and oversight.
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