Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron, and other Western leaders are pushing to establish a global supervisory regime and "technology stability" body to govern AI
THE SO WHAT
A push from Carney, Macron, and others for a global "technology stability" body means AI is being framed like systemic financial risk, not just competition policy. For operators, assume cross-border rules on model disclosure, testing, and incident reporting are coming — start mapping which of your AI systems would qualify as “systemically important” under that lens.
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