http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/23df96e5c30154fe https://verfassungsblog.de/stopping-regime-ai-agents/ The Law of Stop - Constituting a Stopping Regime for Agentic AI Perez, Oren eng 2026-10-19 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 AI AI Act Artificial Intelligence Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In Normal Accidents (1984), the sociologist Charles Perrow argued that accidents are inevitable in complex, tightly coupled systems. Slowing AI development, as Anthropic’s chief executive has proposed, may buy time, but it cannot remove the need for a techno-legal infrastructure that makes a stop possible and prepares for its failure. Lawmakers should use that time to build it, before the next AI crisis.