The coordination gap in frontier AI safety policies

arXiv:2603.10015v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Frontier AI Safety Policies concentrate on prevention — capability evaluations, deployment gates, and usage constraints — while neglecting institutional capacity to coordinate responses when prevention fails. We argue that this coordination gap is structural: investments in ecosystem robustness yield diffuse benefits but concentrated costs, generating systematic underinvestment. Drawing on risk regimes in nuclear safety, pandemic preparedness, and critical infrastructure, we propose that similar mechanisms — precommitment, shared protocols, and standing coordination venues — could be adapted to frontier AI governance. Without such architecture, institutions cannot learn from failures at the pace of relevance.