“AI Governance Needs Radical Optionality” by AI Frontiers

Subtitle: One of the most valuable things governments can build today is the capacity to govern advanced AI competently in the future. Charlie Bullock, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Law & AI — July 6, 2026 How should governments regulate the most advanced AI systems? One possible answer is that they should not. Libertarian-minded writers have made the case for a culture of “permissionless innovation” for AI development, in which the role of government would be limited to enforcing existing laws and facilitating industry self-regulation with “soft law” tools such as voluntary stan