A recent AI Frontiers commentary by Arbel, Goldstein, and Salib proposes a narrow, time-limited, judicially reviewable government halt power for catastrophic AI risks, explicitly rejecting nationalization. Separately, Alex Karp has argued linking nationalization to AI liability. Crucially, a temporary halt power merely suspends specific high-risk deployment; it does not grant legal indemnity, transfer financial losses to taxpayers, or constitute a public bailout. Key questions for analysis: 1. How would a judicial halt order practically apply to local or open-weight model deployments once weights are broadly distributed? 2. If regulatory interventions end up absorbing catastrophic downside, how do frameworks prevent socializing systemic risk while preserving private commercial upside? 3. What specific legal guardrails best distinguish targeted safety pauses from indirect state absorption of private liability? Source: https://ai-frontiers.org/articles/instead-of-nationalizing-ai-give-the-government-a-pause-button Discussion context (not corroboration): https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1xu2hsj/alex_karp_on_ai_regulatory_capture_its_every_mark/