Frog‑boil normalization in AI governance

A governance dynamic where incremental deployments, repeated exceptions, and competitive urgency jointly shift formerly unacceptable AI practices into routine policy and commercial defaults. Over months and years, small permissive steps accumulate into broad normalisation that is politically costly to reverse. — If true, democracies must design threshold‑based rules and institutional stopgaps now because slow normalization makes later corrective regulation politically and economically much harder.