The Role of Middle Powers in a Compute Verification Regime

I recently finished Lens Academy's Compute Verification course, which lays out the technical, supply-chain and political components a verification regime would need, and left me with one question it didn't answer.Polish and EU national the question I kept coming back to is what would be the role of middle powers in the regime proposed by the course? It is my opinion that middle powers could be its enforcement backbone, and here’s how and why.A middle power in the context of the “AI race” would b...