Civic Secretariat to Pace AI

Create an independent civic secretariat — legally and operationally controlled by neither frontier labs nor a single state — that grants neutral evaluators structured, ongoing access to leading models, coordinates staggered slowdowns among labs, and publicly certifies compliance. The secretariat would act as a trusted third party to solve the nested stag‑hunt problem between countries and firms, making voluntary pacing credible without requiring a global leviathan. — Offers a concrete, institutional alternative to purely state-led regulation or voluntary pledges that could make a credible, enforceable slowdown politically and technically plausible.