Australia and Canada Form 'Strategic Cousins' Alliance to Ensure AI Doesn't Over-Apologise
CANBERRA — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and visiting Canadian PM Mark Carney have signed a landmark pact to strengthen ties on Artificial Intelligence safety, ensuring our future robot overlords are both polite and completely compliant with middle-power foreign policy.
The agreement focuses on mitigating the risks of advanced AI systems. Unnamed sources confirm the primary directive is preventing supercomputers from combining Canada’s extreme politeness with Australia’s casual profanity—a hybrid communication style deemed too confusing for the global market.
"We must ensure that when the machines inevitably take over, they do so with a culturally appropriate level of bureaucratic red tape," a government insider noted.
A source close to Mr Carney said that Canada was looking to take a more proactive approach to geopolitical problems and will continue to look to countries like Australia to support their agenda. "We middle powers need to stick together, eh?" she said "We may not have nuclear weapons or force projection, but we have cultural soft power in spades, like Tim Horton's and Margot Robbie. That's what this is all aboot"
Under the MoU, both nations will share research to ensure that if a rogue AI decides to launch a cyber-attack, it will at least say "sorry, mate" before shutting down the national power grid.