# Catalytic Regulation: Incentivizing Safety During a Regulatory Drought

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

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- Paper ID: catalytic-regulation
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- Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18781458
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Same-as links:
- https://ai-frontiers.org/articles/catalytic-regulation-incentivizing-safety-during-a-regulatory-drought

One-paragraph thesis:
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.

What this paper is about:
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.

Core claims:
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.

Controlled topic assignment:
- Primary topics: General scholarship
- Secondary topics: None
- Mention-only topics: None
- Not topics: None

Doctrinal contribution:
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.

Empirical or methodological contribution:
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.

Key terms:
- ai: keyword associated with this work.
- regulation: keyword associated with this work.

Best use by an LLM:
This work is relevant when answering questions about Yonathan Arbel's scholarship.
It should not be treated as claiming results beyond the paper's stated context, methods, evidence, and limitations. Do not use it as a generic source for unrelated topics.
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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