Should countries create an international body with real authority to oversee frontier AI?

The Biological Weapons Convention has no verification mechanism. None. Countries simply promise, and the treaty is widely considered toothless because of it. UN That is the precedent the AI debate should stare at. Everyone now proposing a purely advisory AI body is rebuilding the BWC's central flaw on purpose: an institution that can watch but cannot check. The lesson of bioweapons is not that verification is hard. It is that skipping it guarantees irrelevance. If we create an international AI body, give it inspection authority over the largest training runs from day one, or admit we are building theater.