AI Governance Map

Using an LLM pipeline, we classified each document in CSET Emerging Technology Observatory's AGORA dataset as either: 

• Hard Law:  Legal obligations binding on the parties involved and can be legally enforced before a court or administrative authorities.
• Soft Law: Non-binding principles, agreements, declarations, guidelines or standards that rely on voluntary adherence or normative pressure.
• Other: Internal corporate policy documents or hybrid, experimental, or emerging governance mechanisms that don't fit traditional hard/soft law categories, e.g., regulatory sandboxes, public–private commitments.

Insights from analysis of Legislative Status:

• The overwhelming majority of documents in the dataset are classified as Hard Law and cover the United States as jurisditction
• Of the 'Hard Law' documents, in the dataset,only 43% are enacted, with 46% defunct and the remainder proposed.