Economic‑Index‑Triggered AI Audits

Use high‑frequency, vendor‑published economic indices (e.g., Anthropic or platform capex trackers) as pre‑specified triggers to escalate independent, public audits of frontier AI labs. The trigger would be a transparent rule: when an index exceeds a growth or spending threshold, regulators and independent auditors deploy evidence‑based, time‑bounded examinations of safety, provenance and workforce constraints. — Aligning market signals with coordinated oversight provides a practical, politically legible way to scale audits without subjective timing debates and ties governance effort to demonstrable industry expansion.