AI Pause Risks Scope Creep

Trying to 'pause' only the current frontier AI actors will likely force regulators to broaden their reach as compute costs fall and more actors can build powerful systems. Over time that mandate can expand from specialized chips and models to much of standard software and hardware, creating lasting, hard‑to‑reverse controls. — If true, pause‑style regulation could entrench a permanent, rapidly expanding regime of tech governance with major economic and geopolitical consequences.