A Sunset Clause Is Not a Safety Test: Designing an Exit From Frontier AI Limits
TL;DR for operators Any high-stakes agreement needs an answer to a practical question: what evidence should be enough to loosen the rule, and who gets to decide? Across eight comparable treaty regimes, Lennart Finke’s International Agreements to Limit Frontier AI: Objectives and Exit1 finds no concrete rule that automatically ends an agreement once its substantive objective has been achieved; exit instead relies mainly on unilateral withdrawal or fixed duration. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} ...