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The EU AI Act (Regulation EU 2024/1689) entered into force on the 1st of August 2024. It establishes a risk-based framework with four risk categories: minimal, limited, high, and unacceptable. Provisions covering general-purpose AI models became enforceable from the 2nd of August 2025.
The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) launched in June 2020 to promote AI development aligned with human rights and democratic values. It began with 15 founding member nations and had grown to 29 by 2023. GPAI's Secretariat is hosted by the OECD in Paris.
The Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law opened for signature on the 5th of September 2024. The first ten signatories included Andorra, Georgia, Iceland, Norway, Moldova, San Marino, the United Kingdom, Israel, the United States, and the European Union.
The AGI Nanny is a proposed governance strategy involving a smarter-than-human but not fully superintelligent AI system connected to a large surveillance network. Its purpose would be to prevent the emergence of a dangerous superintelligence and guard against large-scale threats such as subversion of the global financial system. The arrangement would hold until a true superintelligence could be safely created.
China's generative AI regulatory measures entered into force on the 15th of August 2023, making China one of the first countries to adopt a comprehensive national framework for generative AI. The measures apply to all providers offering generative AI services to Chinese users, including foreign companies, with rules covering data protection, transparency, and algorithmic accountability. By mid-2024, over 1,400 AI algorithms had been registered under the Cyberspace Administration of China's filing regime.
On the 30th of October 2023, the G7 nations adopted eleven guiding principles for the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI systems as part of the Hiroshima Process. A voluntary Code of Conduct for AI developers was introduced alongside the principles, covering transparency, accountability, and risk-mitigation across the AI lifecycle.