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# Why AI governance needs treaties and regulations together
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/why-ai-governance-needs-treaties-and-regulations-together/
- Published: 2026-04-13T16:02:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-13T16:02:42.000Z
- Description: The framing of AI safety as a choice between regulation or treaties misses how they operate on different timescales and enforcement mechanisms.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-ai, AI & ML, ethics

Source: [LessWrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7CLL4Kpruf63GfBc3/treaties-regulations-and-research-can-be-complements?ref=adjacent.media)

The framing of AI safety as a choice between regulation or treaties misses how they operate on different timescales and enforcement mechanisms. Regulations handle domestic implementation and compliance monitoring, while treaties establish the shared legal frameworks that make cross-border coordination possible. Both depend on the same underlying infrastructure: technical expertise, monitoring capacity, and political will. Investment in one—building verification capabilities, for instance—directly strengthens the other. The actual constraint is whether governments will staff and resource these systems, not whether they're theoretically compatible.