'Pacing' Is Diplomatic Wordcraft: How AI Governance Finds Coalition-Safe Terms
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-19
The author argues that the term "pacing" is a great diplomatic achievement, much like the phrase "making AI go well" — an intensive search through memetic and semantic space to find an optimal short combination of words that a broad coalition can buy into. It highlights how AI governance relies on deliberately vague consensus language.
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