Should international technology rules be enforceable rather than voluntary?

Treaties take a decade; technology takes eighteen months. The DSA was proposed in 2020 and its full obligations only bit in 2024, an eternity in AI years. European Commission. A binding global tech treaty would be negotiated by diplomats, ratified by 190 parliaments, and arrive just in time to regulate the previous generation's problems. Worse, it would lock in those answers: once a standard is international law, updating it requires another round of global consensus, which means the rules ossify while the technology sprints. Voluntary frameworks can be revised in a year. National regulators can move in months. A binding treaty is the slowest possible instrument aimed at the fastest-moving target, and its main achievement would be giving everyone the comforting illusion that the problem was handled.