Promised, and in force
How much of it is real yet?
Governments have signed a great deal about AI safety. Much less of it actually applies yet. This page shows the space between the two, country by country, with the source for every line.
Policy created, against policy put into action
- 47
- Have created policy
- signed, backed or drafted something we track
- 1
- Have put it into action
- at least one of those rules now actually applies
46 of the 47 countries that created policy have none of it working yet. That space is what this site tracks.
- Policy put into actionAt least one rule we track is now in force for this country, so it actually applies. Read from an official source.
- Policy created, not in action yetThis country has signed, endorsed or drafted something we track, and none of it is binding yet. That is the ordinary state of most AI governance right now, ratification and implementation take years, and it is the distance this site exists to show.
- Not on the lists we checkedWe read the full lists of who took part in the things we track, and this country was not on them. That is a statement about those documents on the date we read them. It is not a view about what the country is doing, and a country can be doing a great deal at home without appearing on any of them.
- Researched, waiting to be checkedResearch exists in the database but nobody has checked it against the source yet, so none of it appears on the public pages.
- We have not established anythingNo complete list we hold covers this country, so we have established nothing either way. That is a gap in our work and says nothing at all about what the country has or has not done.
Every country here has an answer behind it, and a source. A pale country is one we checked against complete participant lists and did not find, a fact about those documents on the date we read them, not a view about that country. Nothing here is a score or a ranking. Equal-area projection, so no country appears larger than it is.
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And everywhere else
- 148 checked, not on the lists
- We read 7 complete participant lists in full, and these countries were not on them. That is a fact about those documents on the day we read them. A country can be doing a great deal at home without appearing on any of them.
- 0 we have not established
- No complete list we hold covers them. That is a gap in our work, and it says nothing at all about what those countries are doing.
Countries where a rule actually applies
A rule we track has entered into force for these countries, so it applies to them today. Every row has a source behind it, open a country to read the exact lines we read.
| Country | Where it stands | Created | In action |
|---|---|---|---|
| China | Policy put into action | 3 | 2 |
What each label means
- Policy put into action
- At least one rule we track is now in force for this country, so it actually applies. Read from an official source.
- Policy created, not in action yet
- This country has signed, endorsed or drafted something we track, and none of it is binding yet. That is the ordinary state of most AI governance right now, ratification and implementation take years, and it is the distance this site exists to show.
- Not on the lists we checked
- We read the full lists of who took part in the things we track, and this country was not on them. That is a statement about those documents on the date we read them. It is not a view about what the country is doing, and a country can be doing a great deal at home without appearing on any of them.
- Researched, waiting to be checked
- Research exists in the database but nobody has checked it against the source yet, so none of it appears on the public pages.
- We have not established anything
- No complete list we hold covers this country, so we have established nothing either way. That is a gap in our work and says nothing at all about what the country has or has not done.
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