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.
Every country we monitor
Every country and observer state, measured against the complete participant lists we hold. Every row has a source behind it, open a country to read the exact lines we read.
| Country | Where it stands | Created | In action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| Austria | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Bahrain | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Brazil | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Canada | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| Chile | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| China | Policy put into action | 3 | 2 |
| Croatia | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Denmark | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Estonia | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Finland | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| France | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| Germany | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| Greece | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Iceland | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| India | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Indonesia | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Ireland | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| Israel | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Italy | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Japan | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Kazakhstan | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Kenya | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| Latvia | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Liechtenstein | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Luxembourg | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Netherlands | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| New Zealand | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Nigeria | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Norway | Policy created, not in action yet | 3 | 0 |
| Philippines | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Portugal | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Republic of Korea | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Republic of Moldova | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Romania | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Rwanda | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Saudi Arabia | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Sierra Leone | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Singapore | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| South Africa | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Spain | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| Switzerland | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| Türkiye | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| Ukraine | Policy created, not in action yet | 1 | 0 |
| United Arab Emirates | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| United Kingdom | Policy created, not in action yet | 2 | 0 |
| United States of America | Policy created, not in action yet | 4 | 0 |
Show the other 148 countries, where we have recorded nothing
A country here was checked against every complete list we hold and was not on them, or is not covered by any list we hold. Either way it describes our record, not the country.
| Afghanistan | Not on the lists we checked |
|---|---|
| Albania | Not on the lists we checked |
| Algeria | Not on the lists we checked |
| Andorra | Not on the lists we checked |
| Angola | Not on the lists we checked |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Not on the lists we checked |
| Argentina | Not on the lists we checked |
| Armenia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Azerbaijan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Bahamas | Not on the lists we checked |
| Bangladesh | Not on the lists we checked |
| Barbados | Not on the lists we checked |
| Belarus | Not on the lists we checked |
| Belgium | Not on the lists we checked |
| Belize | Not on the lists we checked |
| Benin | Not on the lists we checked |
| Bhutan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Bolivia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Not on the lists we checked |
| Botswana | Not on the lists we checked |
| Brunei Darussalam | Not on the lists we checked |
| Bulgaria | Not on the lists we checked |
| Burkina Faso | Not on the lists we checked |
| Burundi | Not on the lists we checked |
| Cabo Verde | Not on the lists we checked |
| Cambodia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Cameroon | Not on the lists we checked |
| Central African Republic | Not on the lists we checked |
| Chad | Not on the lists we checked |
| Colombia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Comoros | Not on the lists we checked |
| Congo | Not on the lists we checked |
| Costa Rica | Not on the lists we checked |
| Cuba | Not on the lists we checked |
| Cyprus | Not on the lists we checked |
| Czechia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Côte d’Ivoire | Not on the lists we checked |
| Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | Not on the lists we checked |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Not on the lists we checked |
| Djibouti | Not on the lists we checked |
| Dominica | Not on the lists we checked |
| Dominican Republic | Not on the lists we checked |
| Ecuador | Not on the lists we checked |
| Egypt | Not on the lists we checked |
| El Salvador | Not on the lists we checked |
| Equatorial Guinea | Not on the lists we checked |
| Eritrea | Not on the lists we checked |
| Eswatini | Not on the lists we checked |
| Ethiopia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Fiji | Not on the lists we checked |
| Gabon | Not on the lists we checked |
| Gambia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Georgia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Ghana | Not on the lists we checked |
| Grenada | Not on the lists we checked |
| Guatemala | Not on the lists we checked |
| Guinea | Not on the lists we checked |
| Guinea-Bissau | Not on the lists we checked |
| Guyana | Not on the lists we checked |
| Haiti | Not on the lists we checked |
| Holy See | Not on the lists we checked |
| Honduras | Not on the lists we checked |
| Hungary | Not on the lists we checked |
| Iran | Not on the lists we checked |
| Iraq | Not on the lists we checked |
| Jamaica | Not on the lists we checked |
| Jordan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Kiribati | Not on the lists we checked |
| Kuwait | Not on the lists we checked |
| Kyrgyzstan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Lao People’s Democratic Republic | Not on the lists we checked |
| Lebanon | Not on the lists we checked |
| Lesotho | Not on the lists we checked |
| Liberia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Libya | Not on the lists we checked |
| Lithuania | Not on the lists we checked |
| Madagascar | Not on the lists we checked |
| Malawi | Not on the lists we checked |
| Malaysia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Maldives | Not on the lists we checked |
| Mali | Not on the lists we checked |
| Malta | Not on the lists we checked |
| Marshall Islands | Not on the lists we checked |
| Mauritania | Not on the lists we checked |
| Mauritius | Not on the lists we checked |
| Mexico | Not on the lists we checked |
| Micronesia (Federated States of) | Not on the lists we checked |
| Monaco | Not on the lists we checked |
| Mongolia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Montenegro | Not on the lists we checked |
| Morocco | Not on the lists we checked |
| Mozambique | Not on the lists we checked |
| Myanmar | Not on the lists we checked |
| Namibia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Nauru | Not on the lists we checked |
| Nepal | Not on the lists we checked |
| Nicaragua | Not on the lists we checked |
| Niger | Not on the lists we checked |
| North Macedonia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Oman | Not on the lists we checked |
| Pakistan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Palau | Not on the lists we checked |
| Panama | Not on the lists we checked |
| Papua New Guinea | Not on the lists we checked |
| Paraguay | Not on the lists we checked |
| Peru | Not on the lists we checked |
| Poland | Not on the lists we checked |
| Qatar | Not on the lists we checked |
| Russian Federation | Not on the lists we checked |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Not on the lists we checked |
| Saint Lucia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Not on the lists we checked |
| Samoa | Not on the lists we checked |
| San Marino | Not on the lists we checked |
| Sao Tome and Principe | Not on the lists we checked |
| Senegal | Not on the lists we checked |
| Serbia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Seychelles | Not on the lists we checked |
| Slovakia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Slovenia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Solomon Islands | Not on the lists we checked |
| Somalia | Not on the lists we checked |
| South Sudan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Sri Lanka | Not on the lists we checked |
| State of Palestine | Not on the lists we checked |
| Sudan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Suriname | Not on the lists we checked |
| Sweden | Not on the lists we checked |
| Syrian Arab Republic | Not on the lists we checked |
| Tajikistan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Thailand | Not on the lists we checked |
| Timor-Leste | Not on the lists we checked |
| Togo | Not on the lists we checked |
| Tonga | Not on the lists we checked |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Not on the lists we checked |
| Tunisia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Turkmenistan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Tuvalu | Not on the lists we checked |
| Uganda | Not on the lists we checked |
| United Republic of Tanzania | Not on the lists we checked |
| Uruguay | Not on the lists we checked |
| Uzbekistan | Not on the lists we checked |
| Vanuatu | Not on the lists we checked |
| Venezuela | Not on the lists we checked |
| Viet Nam | Not on the lists we checked |
| Yemen | Not on the lists we checked |
| Zambia | Not on the lists we checked |
| Zimbabwe | Not on the lists we checked |
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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