Atlantic Council: AI Safety Pledges Need Enforcement as US-China Tensions Threaten Global Deal

The Atlantic Council's core point is that voluntary corporate pledges are structurally weak instruments, and that the same geopolitical distrust shaping AI competition also removes the enforcement mechanism any global deal would need. This matters most for the labs and governments that have leaned on self-declared safety commitments as a substitute for binding rules. The open question is whether commercial pressure to ship faster simply outpaces whatever coordination remains possible.