"Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet"

-- St. Augustine

It seems to me that the current rates of progress in AI are largely fine when measured by absolute value increments in capabilities. We are not afraid of next month's progress; in fact, we as a society are mostly enthusiastic about it. The benefits so far have clearly outweighed the downsides. Clear downsides have started to appear: chatbots, especially GPT-4o, induce psychosis in some vulnerable people. But it seems manageable; maybe it could be fixed just by putting a statement like "Mitigating the risk of psychosis from the free version of ChatGPT should be OpenAI's priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as helping create biological and chemical weapons" and promoting it widely online (especially on Twitter).

Current AI progress seems largely fine.

But it is exponential.

One day we might think "okay, this is getting too fast". It seems prudent to me that we should move from the "exponential growth" to "linear growth" paradigm before then. That's why I propose the following governance idea:

Find out which economic indicators are most useful for tracking "AI's share in the economy".
Create an international organization akin to a global central bank: but instead of forecasting and limiting inflation, it would forecast and limit the rate of growth of AI's share in the global economy, as measured by indicators selected in point 1.

The target could be to automate e.g. 0.4 - 0.6 percentage points of the global economy with AI every year. How could this "global central bank for AI" limit AI's growth? It would need to be researched, but I have in mind something like this (from least severe to most severe):

Taxing AI revenues: a fixed percentage on all AI revenues globally, the percentage would be decided monthly based on current and prognosed statistics (akin to how interest rates are decided by central banks).
Taxing AI hardware, fixed dollar amount (the same globally) per theoretical flops of the hardware pieces. Tax can be paid monthly? All hardware pieces need to be registered in order to be used legally, similar to fire weapons?
Limiting / stopping global production of AI hardware (2 and 3 can be introduced together, as they are similar in severity)
(After AI hardware production is stopped) Removing existing AI hardware from their owners: through introducing so aggressive taxes that those w

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