5 July 2026
Don't marry your business to one AI model
The worst environment for a business isn't strict AI regulation, or none — it's unpredictable regulation. The US is regulating frontier AI through discretionary national-security intervention (models pulled with little notice) while refusing a formal regulator; markets can price clear rules but not uncertainty, and the primary evidence (Bloom 2009; Baker-Bloom-Davis 2016; Brexit's ~11% UK investment hit) shows uncertainty alone suppresses investment. For an SME the hedge isn't picking the 'right' model but building an orchestration layer so switching models is a configuration change, not a rebuild — which also cuts cost by routing each task to the cheapest adequate model.
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