National capacity
Who is responsible for AI safety in each country?
We are building a record of which countries have a credible body responsible for advanced AI safety, and whether it is working with counterparts in other nations.
Nothing published yet
195 countries and observer states are in the dataset, and zero have a published status.
3 have been researched, with a source recorded, and are waiting to be checked against it. Research is not a status, and it does not appear above until somebody has read the source.
We could fill this page with plausible-looking numbers today. We are not going to. A status only appears once an authenticated account has recorded an authoritative source for it, with the date it was checked.
How a status gets published
Every non-trivial status requires all of the following before it appears:
- an authoritative source URL
- the source title and the organisation that published it
- the publication date, where one exists
- the date a reviewer last checked it
- a review by an authenticated account, which is never named
- the methodology version in force at the time
Which sources we prefer, in order
- Official government publication
- Official parliamentary or regulatory publication
- Treaty or international organisation publication
- A primary statement from the institution itself
- A reputable secondary source, only where no primary evidence exists
The five statuses
These are transparency labels describing what we could verify. They are not legal judgements, and they are not a ranking.
- Verified existing body
- Related or partial mandate
- Government proposal announced
- No dedicated body identified
- Under review
“No dedicated body identified” means we could not find one. It does not mean none exists. If we have the record wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say that we did.
The body does not need a particular name
An AI safety institute, a scientific safety council, a cross-ministerial committee, an existing regulator with a clear advanced-AI-safety mandate, or another equivalent institution can all qualify. What matters is that someone is clearly responsible.