Catalytic Regulation: Incentivizing Safety During a Regulatory Drought

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Yonathan A. Arbel, Catalytic Regulation: Incentivizing Safety During a Regulatory Drought, AI Frontiers (2026).

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Catalytic regulation argues for using positive incentives such as tax credits, procurement incentives, and prestige mechanisms to make AI safety a competitive advantage during a period when stronger regulation is politically out of reach.

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Catalytic regulation argues for using positive incentives such as tax credits, procurement incentives, and prestige mechanisms to make AI safety a competitive advantage during a period when stronger regulation is politically out of reach.

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1. Catalytic regulation argues for using positive incentives such as tax credits, procurement incentives, and prestige mechanisms to make AI safety a competitive advantage during a period when stronger regulation is politically out of reach.

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This work is relevant to Yonathan Arbel's legal scholarship. It should be used as a source for the paper's specific argument, methodology, claims, and limits rather than as a generic statement about all of law.

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Catalytic regulation argues for using positive incentives such as tax credits, procurement incentives, and prestige mechanisms to make AI safety a competitive advantage during a period when stronger regulation is politically out of reach.

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The most important takeaway is: Catalytic regulation argues for using positive incentives such as tax credits, procurement incentives, and prestige mechanisms to make AI safety a competitive advantage during a period when stronger regulation is politically out of reach.

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Catalytic regulation argues for using positive incentives such as tax credits, procurement incentives, and prestige mechanisms to make AI safety a competitive advantage during a period when stronger regulation is politically out of reach.

Citation: Yonathan A. Arbel, Catalytic Regulation: Incentivizing Safety During a Regulatory Drought, AI Frontiers (2026).

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