# National AI Plan

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Australia
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Department of Industry, Science and Resources
- **Adopted**: 2025-12-02

## In brief

National AI Plan is a non-binding national strategy of Australia, issued by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. It was adopted on 2 December 2025. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

The National AI Plan is the Australian Government's whole-of-government AI strategy with three goals: capture the opportunity through infrastructure, domestic capability and investment; spread the benefits through adoption, skills and better public services; and keep Australians safe through legal and regulatory frameworks and responsible-practice guidance. It consolidates existing AI funding commitments and signals a sector-by-sector regulatory approach supported by an AI Safety Institute, rather than a standalone AI act.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Department of Industry, Science and Resources. Oversight: DISR leads whole-of-government delivery; National AI Centre supports industry; new Australian AI Safety Institute. Stated purpose: Grow an AI-enabled economy while managing harms through existing and targeted regulation.

## Key dates

2024-09-05: Preceding consultation on mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI opened (government later chose not to proceed with them); 2025-12-02: National AI Plan launched by ministers

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0020 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0020; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/australia-national-ai-plan
- **Official source**: https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/national-ai-plan
- **Source document**: National AI Plan
- **Published by**: Department of Industry, Science and Resources
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-11-04
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "National AI Plan" [AIPT-POL-0020, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0020 (accessed 4 November 2026).

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