Comment by Jay Burstein

If policymakers are worried about the most advanced systems, then oversight should focus on the highest-capability end of the stack. Commerce already moved in this direction when BIS proposed reporting requirements for advanced AI models and large computing clusters. The proposal was framed as a national security and industrial base tool, not a blanket licensing regime. That is the right instinct. Federal visibility into the largest compute clusters is a far more sensible way to track frontier activity than trying to halt development outright. That kind of oversight is targeted. It is rooted in actual capability thresholds. And it gives policymakers a way to monitor what matters most without smothering the rest of the ecosystem. If additional safeguards are needed for the most advanced systems, they should be automatic, narrow, and workable. The best approach would be threshold-based reporting, transparency expectations, and evaluation triggers tied to capability or deployment context. We cannot build a slow permission structure that forces developers to wait for approvals before they can move forward. AI Unverifiable source (2026)