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Five Country Ministerial Communiqué 2026
Record INT-19
- Issued by
- Home Affairs, Interior and Security Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, meeting under Australia's chairmanship in Sydney
- Jurisdiction
- Five Country Ministerial (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States)
- Level · region
- International · Global
- Published / adopted
- 2026-08-26
- Language
- English
Summary
Joint communiqué of the Five Country Ministerial (Sydney, 25-26 August 2026) with a dedicated section on AI and national security. The ministers commit to shaping AI's opportunities while countering risks from malicious use, to deepen collaboration with industry 'including enabling timely access to frontier models to support secure innovation and strengthen cyber security', and to ensure the safe, secure and responsible application of AI. They discussed the national security implications of AI models and 'characteristics of an artificial intelligence model that may require additional government scrutiny', and shared lessons from national AI tabletop exercises.
Safety topics
national security & militarygeneral-purpose / frontier AIinternational cooperation
Scope
Borderline scope Interior-ministers' communiqué with one AI section; the existing scope_note is right.
Status notes
The communiqué is dated 26 August 2026, Sydney, and was published on GOV.UK by the Home Office on 28 August 2026. Outside its section on AI and national security, it notes that state threats are amplified by advanced technology including AI, that AI gives terrorists and violent extremists new tools for radicalisation, propaganda, attack planning and fundraising, and that the fast-growing threat of online and cyber-enabled scams is largely driven by AI-enabled technology. It does not set out which model characteristics may require additional government scrutiny.
Local copy
Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 16:30:08 UTC
Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/INT-19/2026-10-11/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:46 UTC
SHA-256 b10ea8fb838845b3e30ad195982fa92119a582417c02e89fb9b084c576037a92
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/INT-19/2026-10-11/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:48 UTC
SHA-256 fc4978892ab84b5a8ee30cd7e3a209138ec2772599e18ef6c9241469032d9a42
Verification
AThe instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched
Stored and read in this run: the GOV.UK HTML communiqué and its publication page (Home Office policy paper, published 28 August 2026). They confirm the title, the Sydney meeting of 25-26 August 2026, the 26 August 2026 dateline, the participating ministers and the full text of the AI and national security section. Other host-government copies were not stored. The previous note's report, from a commentary seen in search results, that none of the five governments had released the scrutiny criteria rests on no stored source.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 6 field(s) supported, fixes applied to scope_note.
History
- 2026-10-17scope_note: A communiqué of interior ministers with one section on AI and national security, → Interior-ministers' communiqué with one AI section; the existing scope_note is r — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 (recheck), candidate INT-192026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-17notes: The communiqué is dated 26 August 2026, Sydney, and was published on GOV.UK on 2 → The communiqué is dated 26 August 2026, Sydney, and was published on GOV.UK by t — 'complements the June 2026 US executive order (US-23)' and 'the criteria are not published' are not supported by the stored text; replaced by what the text says about AI outside its AI section2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["national security & military", "general-purpose / frontier AI", "international → ["national security & military", "general-purpose / frontier AI", "international — 'child safety' dropped: the communiqué's passage on protecting children concerns online harms in general and does not mention AI2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14scope_note: – → A communiqué of interior ministers with one section on AI and national security, — borderline under the include-and-flag rules of issue #22026-10-14-issue-2-scope-notes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14notes: The communiqué is dated 26 August 2026, Sydney, and was published on GOV.UK on 2 → The communiqué is dated 26 August 2026, Sydney, and was published on GOV.UK on 2 — scope caveat moved to scope_note2026-10-14-issue-2-scope-notes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Citation
Home Affairs, Interior and Security Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, meeting under Australia's chairmanship in Sydney. Five Country Ministerial Communiqué 2026. 2026-08-26. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/five-country-ministerial-communique-2026/five-country-ministerial-communique-2026. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/INT-19/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:46 UTC, SHA-256 b10ea8fb838845b3e30ad195982fa92119a582417c02e89fb9b084c576037a92. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record INT-19.
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