Cosmos Institute founder @Brendan_McCord warns that giving regulators the power to slow down frontier AI could create an authority with virtually no limits: "Developing tools to pace the frontier is assigning power to pace the frontier. And if you assign power in a free society, you also have to demarcate it. You have to place limits on it." "Something as ill-defined as pacing, today it's compute, tomorrow it's algorithms, maybe the way a research organization is set up, is going to force any would-be pacer to dynamically redefine its jurisdiction. No one who advocates for pacing can really tell me what power the pacer would not have." "If you were gonna pace the whole frontier, you need a way to deal with defectors, which means you need an ability to coerce actors who don't wanna stop. That's what needs to be defined if we're gonna have this be a liberal institution." @cosmos_inst