This is obviously true, but “what is the best response that we can actually pass” is at least as important a question as “what is the theoretically optimal legislative response assuming no political constraints.” I think that introducing a *bipartisan* bill as strong as FRONTIER back in July was an incredible achievement that Reps. Obernolte and Trahan deserve a lot of credit for. Things have changed since then, obviously, which is why FRONTIER now has six cosponsors from each party. I think someone should write and introduce the best possible federal pacing bill, in part because it might actually become possible to pass such a bill at some point in the next couple years if we get a lot of new information that makes that proposal more politically compelling. But we also have to write the best oversight + governance bills that we can, because in a lot of likely-seeming political paradigms those are going to be the bills that can actually pick up four republican senators and open up the possibility of a deal being made with the President. If you’re a really cracked lawyer who is or could be good at writing legislation, I think you should consider the question of whether you have a moral obligation to work on this stuff. A lot of new and incumbent members of congress are going to be hiring staffers to work on AI legislation very soon. A lot of states are currently hiring the people who will actually be tasked with implementing and enforcing the first serious laws governing frontier AI development. Lots of work to be done.