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The World Trade Organization has walked into the AI pacing argument, and its director-general is worried about a different risk. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warns that the AI boom is obscuring disruptions to global trade, and says any slowdown in tech investment would have a disproportionate impact on growth.
Why it mattersThe timing is pointed. Her intervention lands in the same fortnight that frontier lab chiefs called for pacing, markets wobbled and a US president dismissed the idea. She arrives with no model to sell, only an economist's ledger: the brake pedal has a price too, and it would not fall evenly. The Financial Times carries her remarks. The pacing debate has priced the risk of going fast; it now has an institutional voice pricing the cost of slowing down.
Discuss: The lab chiefs price the risk of going fast; the WTO's chief prices the cost of slowing down. Which number should a government believe when it sets the pace?
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