{ "about": "AI Citizen Action directory data. Channel records are published here only when a reviewed route explicitly accepts contact and is currently open or limited. Route verified still records technical retrieval separately.", "section": "bodies", "count": 230, "excluded_count": 0, "generated": "2026-09-24T15:07:58.391Z", "records": [ { "id": "ae-artificial-intelligence-office", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "ae", "label": "United Arab Emirates" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "ai-office-contact-page", "type": "form", "value": "https://ai.gov.ae/contact-us/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en, ar", "source_id": "c58e8e7cedae" }, { "id": "ai-office-homepage", "type": "form", "value": "https://ai.gov.ae/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en, ar", "source_id": "924db1a619df" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://ai.gov.ae/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "ef8ff34059bb" } ], "local_name": "مكتب الذكاء الاصطناعي", "region": "Middle East", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "government-use" ], "powers": [ "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:government-use": "coordinates government AI adoption", "powers:advise": "Promotional and coordinating rather than regulatory" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-4314d950-4dec-45ab-b3ce-0ffad5328818", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Artificial Intelligence Office, UAE / Office of the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications", "remit": "The world's first dedicated AI ministerial portfolio (Omar Sultan Al Olama, appointed 2017). Sets national AI strategy (UAE National Strategy for AI 2031), runs capability programmes and the AI Charter, and coordinates government AI adoption. Promotional and coordinating rather than regulatory — the UAE has no comprehensive AI statute, and AI-adjacent enforcement sits with sectoral regulators and the data-protection framework. A separate Abu Dhabi AI and Advanced Technology Council (AIATC) handles Abu Dhabi-level investment and strategy; do not conflate the two.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "The UAE presents an internationally-facing, English-language front and actively courts foreign AI talent and investment, so it is more approachable in tone than most. But there is no consultation process, no complaint route, and no frontier-risk mandate — the posture is adoption and investment. I could not fetch the site to confirm any contact address; anything published about UAE contact details should be manually re-verified.", "notes": "No stated position on frontier or catastrophic risk. The UAE signed the Bletchley Declaration but is not a member of the international network.", "routes": { "ai-office-contact-page": { "label": "AI Office contact page", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED — the page exists per search results but returned HTTP 403 on fetch. I did NOT see any email address. Do not publish one." }, "ai-office-homepage": { "label": "AI Office homepage", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED — 403 on fetch attempt. Site is known to be English/Arabic bilingual." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://ai.gov.ae/contact-us/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://ai.gov.ae/", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "2e476fdea2", "research_order": 55, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "ar-argentina-ai-governance", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "ar", "label": "Argentina" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "ai-bills-before-chamber", "type": "docket", "value": "https://rest.hcdn.gob.ar/web/proyectos/289500/adjuntos/104100", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "es", "source_id": "11edaf311cab" } ], "region": "Latin America", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "law", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "government-use" ], "powers": [ "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:government-use": "an internal-audit instrument for government AI use, not a market regulator", "powers:advise": "advise" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-a0ed075e-0466-46d8-bda0-e8b02419fa99", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Argentina — AI governance (Subsecretaría / SIGEN public-sector AI controls)", "remit": "STATUS AS OF SEPT 2026: NO AI LAW AND NO DEDICATED AI BODY I COULD VERIFY. Argentina has a National AI Plan lineage and various bills before Congress, none passed. The concrete 2026 development I could identify is SIGEN Resolution 197/2026 approving a Guide to AI Controls for the Public Sector — an internal-audit instrument for government AI use, not a market regulator. The Agencia de Acceso a la Información Pública handles data-protection aspects. The Milei administration has positioned Argentina as deregulatory and pro-AI-investment.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "Essentially no channel. Argentina has no AI authority, no AI law, no consultation process I could verify, and no English-language material. The one 2026 instrument I found governs how the state audits its own AI use. A global directory should list Argentina as 'no identified AI governance contact' rather than inventing one.", "notes": "Lowest-confidence entry in this set. I deliberately list no contact address because I could verify none.", "routes": { "ai-bills-before-chamber": { "label": "AI bills before the Chamber of Deputies", "scope": "legislative record", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). One of several pending bills; not authoritative." } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://rest.hcdn.gob.ar/web/proyectos/289500/adjuntos/104100", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "d13bea4f11", "research_order": 66, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "au-australian-ai-safety-institute", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "au", "label": "Australia" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "disr-ai-safety-institute", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-safety-institute", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "893cc6f07a77" }, { "id": "ministerial-announcement", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/charlton/media/establishment-australian-ai-safety-institute", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "e969052a4774" }, { "id": "disr-what-is-ai", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-safety-science", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "c7c2c2f43e2e" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-safety-institute", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "7096a1f0d0e2" } ], "region": "Australia", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "law", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "safety-testing", "international", "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "advise", "test-models" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:safety-testing": "Technical AI safety science, evaluation capability, international engagement.", "topics:international": "Technical AI safety science, evaluation capability, international engagement.", "topics:frontier-ai": "means frontier-risk work here is research-only", "powers:advise": "the institute is advisory/research — it cannot compel or fine", "powers:test-models": "Technical AI safety science, evaluation capability" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-e5b4ff90-5deb-43a4-a71b-9f85a0cdbe56", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Australian AI Safety Institute (AAISI)", "remit": "Announced 2025 and established November 2025 within the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR), alongside the National AI Plan. Technical AI safety science, evaluation capability, international engagement. Australia abandoned its proposed mandatory guardrails legislation in favour of a non-regulatory, existing-regulator approach, so the institute is advisory/research — it cannot compel or fine.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "Australia historically runs excellent, genuinely open consultations through DISR's consultation hub, and past AI consultations (2023 Safe and Responsible AI, 2024 mandatory guardrails) accepted and published submissions from foreign organisations including US labs. That is the realistic route in. The institute itself is new enough (Nov 2025) that I could not verify a direct contact channel — industry.gov.au blocked automated fetching throughout.", "notes": "Australia is a full network member. The retreat from mandatory guardrails to a 'gap-filling' approach in 2025 means frontier-risk work here is research-only.", "routes": { "disr-ai-safety-institute": { "label": "DISR AI Safety Institute page", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED — URL from search results; fetch blocked by robots.txt timeout on industry.gov.au. Contact email NOT confirmed." }, "ministerial-announcement": { "label": "Ministerial announcement (Minister Andrew Charlton)", "scope": "background", "note": "UNVERIFIED — fetch blocked by robots.txt." }, "disr-what-is-ai": { "label": "DISR 'What is AI safety science'", "scope": "background", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-safety-institute", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/charlton/media/establishment-australian-ai-safety-institute", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-safety-science", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "da9bc334d6", "research_order": 38, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "au-department-industry", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "au", "label": "Australia" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/technology/artificial-intelligence", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "38de41fd75e6" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/australian-government-response-senate-select-committee-adopting-artificial-intelligence-ai-report", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "fdff00b2db94" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "topics": [ "international", "safety-testing", "transparency" ], "powers": [ "advise", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:international": "coordination of Australia's international AI engagement including GPAI", "topics:safety-testing": "A temporary AI Expert Group advised on testing, transparency and accountability for high-risk AI.", "topics:transparency": "A temporary AI Expert Group advised on testing, transparency and accountability for high-risk AI.", "powers:advise": "A temporary AI Expert Group advised on testing, transparency and accountability for high-risk AI.", "powers:publish": "Government response to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting AI report is published at industry.gov.au/publications." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-c17dd784-3eb7-4001-9f5b-5ef2bc4c9c72", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Department of Industry, Science and Resources — AI policy function, National AI Centre and AI Expert Group", "ai_jurisdiction": "The Commonwealth department that owns AI policy: the safe and responsible AI consultation and the Government's interim response, the proposed mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI, the AI Adopt Program, and coordination of Australia's international AI engagement including GPAI. The National Artificial Intelligence Centre, hosted at CSIRO's Data61, 'coordinates Australia's AI expertise and capabilities to address barriers for small and medium enterprises'. A temporary AI Expert Group advised on testing, transparency and accountability for high-risk AI.", "business": "Government response to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting AI report is published at industry.gov.au/publications. AI Adopt Program; work on high-risk AI guardrails.", "public_route": "Respond to DISR consultations when open (the department has run a 'safe and responsible AI' consultation with a published interim response). More reliably, put the same material into a submission to the Joint Select Committee on AI, where it enters the parliamentary record and cannot be quietly filed.", "format_rules": "Departmental consultations set their own rules and usually publish submissions.", "key_people": "An 'Australian AI Safety Institute' is named in the Joint Select Committee's terms of reference agreed by both Houses on 20 August 2026, which places it on the parliamentary record.", "note": "PARTIALLY VERIFIED 2026-09-22. The National AI Centre at CSIRO Data61, the AI Expert Group and the AI Adopt Program are confirmed from industry.gov.au. The 'Australian AI Safety Institute' is confirmed only as a named body in the Joint Select Committee's terms of reference — I could NOT verify its own official page, leadership or standing, so treat it as UNVERIFIED. No named departmental AI branch head or portfolio minister is asserted.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/technology/artificial-intelligence", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/australian-government-response-senate-select-committee-adopting-artificial-intelligence-ai-report", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "8e6d55b470", "research_order": 110, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "au-joint-select-committee-artificial-intelligence", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "au", "label": "Australia" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Artificial_Intelligence/Committee_Membership", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "6cc629708729" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Artificial_Intelligence", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "8c34433fc38a" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Ms Jo Briskey MP (Australian Labor Party, Maribyrnong, VIC)", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "work", "government-use", "transparency", "copyright", "deepfakes", "children", "consumer-protection", "security" ], "powers": [ "hold-hearings", "publish", "oversee" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:work": "workforce and skills implications including job creation and displacement and job quality and security", "topics:government-use": "adoption of AI by Commonwealth departments and agencies and the transparency and accountability measures applying to it", "topics:transparency": "adoption of AI by Commonwealth departments and agencies and the transparency and accountability measures applying to it", "topics:copyright": "AI's interaction with intellectual property and copyright law including use of Australian creative, cultural and media content in training", "topics:deepfakes": "risks and harms including fraud and scams, deepfakes and risks to children and vulnerable Australians", "topics:children": "risks and harms including fraud and scams, deepfakes and risks to children and vulnerable Australians", "topics:consumer-protection": "risks and harms including fraud and scams, deepfakes and risks to children and vulnerable Australians", "topics:security": "national security and cyber security opportunities and foreign interference risks including supply chains and critical infrastructure", "powers:hold-hearings": "the committee 'may ask submitters to provide further evidence at public hearings'", "powers:publish": "FINAL REPORT DUE NO LATER THAN 30 NOVEMBER 2026", "powers:oversee": "adoption of AI by Commonwealth departments and agencies and the transparency and accountability measures applying to it" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-7bc09cbb-c59d-4aab-9c2b-b52bfe658625", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence", "ai_jurisdiction": "Australia's principal current AI inquiry body, appointed by resolution of BOTH the House of Representatives and the Senate on 20 August 2026. Its terms of reference are unusually broad and are the best single statement of Australian AI policy scope: AI's contribution to resilience, productivity, competitiveness and living standards; spreading benefits to suburbs and regions; AI and robotics in research, new industries and exports (agriculture, resources, health and medical research, advanced manufacturing, financial services, defence industry); rate and barriers to adoption by SMEs and family businesses; sovereign AI capability and its commercialisation, R&D, investment and talent; data sovereignty and narrow domain-specific models trained on Australian data; workforce and skills implications including job creation and displacement and job quality and security; adoption of AI by Commonwealth departments and agencies and the transparency and accountability measures applying to it; THE ADEQUACY OF AUSTRALIA'S EXISTING LAWS AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS AS THEY APPLY TO AI AND WHETHER THERE ARE GAPS WARRANTING REFORM; AI's interaction with intellectual property and copyright law including use of Australian creative, cultural and media content in training; risks and harms including fraud and scams, deepfakes and risks to children and vulnerable Australians; national security and cyber security opportunities and foreign interference risks including supply chains and critical infrastructure; and the implications of emerging AI capability for national security and strategic resilience, including the ability of regulators, THE AUSTRALIAN AI SAFETY INSTITUTE and the intelligence and security community to identify and respond to emerging risks.", "business": "Inquiry running now. Submissions closed 14 September 2026. FINAL REPORT DUE NO LATER THAN 30 NOVEMBER 2026. The establishing resolution is in Journals of the Senate No. 64, Thursday 20 August 2026.", "public_route": "The submission window has closed, but the secretariat can still be contacted and the committee 'may ask submitters to provide further evidence at public hearings'. Late submissions are sometimes accepted at the secretariat's discretion — ask. Secretariat: Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, PO Box 6100, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600; phone +61 2 6277 3863; ai.joint@aph.gov.au.", "format_rules": "The committee's own instruction: 'Given the timeframe for this inquiry, the committee would appreciate submissions to be kept as brief as possible, ideally around 5-6 pages.' It also draws attention to the advice that 'if you are making a submission to a committee, you are responsible for the quality and accuracy of the content of that submission, including where AI tools have been used' — an explicit warning against AI-generated submissions. Submissions are published only after the committee accepts and authorises them; you may not disclose your own submission until then.", "key_people": "Deputy Chair: Senator the Hon Jonathon Duniam (Liberal Party, TAS). Members: Senator Ross Cadell (Nationals, NSW); Ms Kate Chaney MP (Independent, Curtin WA); Senator Josh Dolega (ALP, TAS); Hon Andrew Hastie MP (Liberal, Canning WA); Ms Zaneta Mascarenhas MP (ALP, Swan WA); Senator David Pocock (Independent, ACT); Senator Tony Sheldon (ALP, NSW); Senator Marielle Smith (ALP, SA); Mr Aaron Violi MP (Liberal, Casey VIC); Hon Tim Watts MP (ALP, Gellibrand VIC). The two crossbench senators, Pocock and Chaney, are the members most likely to engage with unaffiliated public submissions.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 by direct fetch of the committee's own aph.gov.au page and its membership page. This committee did not exist before 20 August 2026 and supersedes the earlier Senate Select Committee on Adopting AI as Australia's main AI forum.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chair" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Artificial_Intelligence/Committee_Membership", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Artificial_Intelligence", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "a5e1378bb6", "research_order": 106, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "au-parliament-australia-public-submission-system", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "au", "label": "Australia" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Submissions_Open", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "3c7e8a9d1c98" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Making_a_submission", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "7eab8ce016ab" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "entity_key": "entity-17cb1894-0213-4847-93bf-fa6406968882", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Parliament of Australia — public submission system (the public route)", "ai_jurisdiction": "The mechanism by which any person reaches any Australian parliamentary committee, including all the AI inquiries above.", "business": "Live index of every Senate, House and Joint inquiry currently accepting submissions is maintained at the Submissions_Open pages.", "public_route": "EXACT PROCESS, from the Parliament's own guidance: 'Any interested individual or organisation can make a submission to a parliamentary committee. Several people or organisations can make a joint submission. Organisations and people from other countries can make submissions to an inquiry' — though parliamentary privilege 'cannot be enforced outside Australia'. Lodge online via the link on the inquiry home page after creating a free My Parliament account (name and valid email only); or send directly by email or post to the committee secretariat. You can upload multiple documents, e.g. a covering letter, a public submission and a confidential attachment. An acknowledgement is emailed on receipt. If you cannot meet the deadline, a short extension is often possible — contact the secretariat.", "format_rules": "No word limit in general (individual committees may ask for brevity — the Joint Select Committee on AI asked for 5–6 pages). Upload as Word, PDF or plain text. PROCESS AND PUBLICATION: the secretariat assesses the submission, then the COMMITTEE decides whether to accept it and authorise publication, and may publish only part of it. Once authorised, personal details are removed and it is placed on the website and forms part of the formal record. YOUR OBLIGATIONS: 'After a submission is received by a committee, you cannot publish or disclose it to any other person unless or until the committee has authorised its publication' — this is a real constraint, breach of which can be a contempt. You cannot withdraw or alter a submission without the committee's permission. Confidential submissions may not be shared with anyone. If you submit by an organisation, the organisation is published as the author, not an individual.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 by direct fetch of aph.gov.au 'Making a submission to a committee inquiry'. All quoted text is from that page.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Submissions_Open", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Making_a_submission", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "a9f83a02db", "research_order": 109, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "au-senate-select-committee-adopting-artificial-intelligence", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "au", "label": "Australia" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Adopting_Artificial_Intelligence_AI", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "89a8581de1e0" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Adopting_Artificial_Intelligence_AI/AdoptingAI/Submissions", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "5861a064a45d" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:frontier-ai": "with particular attention to generative AI" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-522d971c-0ea4-4e85-bdb2-a2441580f458", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) — CEASED", "ai_jurisdiction": "Examined the opportunities and impacts of AI adoption in Australia, with particular attention to generative AI.", "business": "CONCLUDED. The committee's extended reporting deadline was 26 November 2024 and its own page states that 'the tabling of the final report concludes the work of the select committee.' The Australian Government published a formal response to the report (industry.gov.au). Its archived submissions remain online and are a useful precedent library for anyone drafting a submission to the current Joint Select Committee.", "public_route": "No longer accepting submissions. Its archived submissions are public and worth reading before writing to the new Joint Select Committee.", "format_rules": "Not applicable — closed.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 as CEASED. Answering the brief's question directly: it no longer exists; it reported and was dissolved, and the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence appointed 20 August 2026 is its functional successor. 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Terms of reference referred on 13 May 2026: the effectiveness of existing regulatory frameworks in managing the growth of data centres in Australia, including in relation to existing and future deals between the Government and global AI companies; the potential impacts of AI and data centres on Australian communities, industries and the environment, water and energy; and any other related matters.", "business": "Submissions closed 1 September 2026. REPORTING DATE 16 NOVEMBER 2026. Public hearings continuing.", "public_route": "Submissions have closed; contact the secretariat about late submissions or appearing at a hearing. Committee Secretary, Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications, PO Box 6100, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600; phone +61 2 6277 3526; ec.sen@aph.gov.au.", "format_rules": "Standard Senate committee rules — lodged online via My Parliament, or by email/post; published only once the committee authorises.", "note": "Inquiry details VERIFIED 2026-09-22 by direct fetch of the inquiry page (dates, terms of reference and secretariat contact are quoted from it). The COMMITTEE CHAIR IS UNVERIFIED — the aph.gov.au Senate committee membership pages returned 404/504 to my fetcher and I will not guess a name.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/AIdatacentres48P", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "7731cf83ab", "research_order": 108, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "br-autoridade-nacional-protecao-dados", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "br", "label": "Brazil" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "anpd-consultation-ai-data", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.gov.br/participamaisbrasil/tomada-de-subsidios-inteligencia-artificial-e-revisao-de-decisoes-automatizadas", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "pt", "source_id": "b6c72753c6c4" }, { "id": "migration-contact-replacement-platform", "type": "email", "value": "participacaodigital@presidencia.gov.br", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "pt", "source_id": "6ecebd85e655" }, { "id": "anpd-official-site", "type": "complaint", "value": "https://www.gov.br/anpd/pt-br", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "pt", "source_id": "0ee0fb204282" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.gov.br/anpd/pt-br", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "bae0f0978161" }, { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.gov.br/anpd/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/institucional/composicao", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "Portuguese only.", "source_id": "31320645ba1d" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.gov.br/participamaisbrasil/consultas-publicas", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "Portuguese only.", "source_id": "0dc22ffec24b" } ], "local_name": "Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados", "region": "Latin America", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "harm", "law", "systemic", "audit" ], "topics": [ "privacy" ], "powers": [ "investigate", "enforce", "fine", "handle-complaints", "make-rules", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:privacy": "Brazil's data protection authority, an autonomous federal agency.", "powers:investigate": "Can investigate, issue preventive suspension orders, and fine", "powers:enforce": "Can investigate, issue preventive suspension orders, and fine", "powers:fine": "Can investigate, issue preventive suspension orders, and fine", "powers:handle-complaints": "ANPD complaints normally run through the federal Fala.BR / peticionamento eletrônico system", "powers:make-rules": "CONSULTA PÚBLICA — formal public consultation on a draft regulation, with a published response.", "powers:publish": "The ANPD publishes contributions and its responses." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "level": "national", "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "UNVERIFIED", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "entity_key": "entity-24e1abc9-326d-4717-94d6-8328862c81ee", "roles": [ "government", "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD)", "remit": "Brazil's data protection authority, an autonomous federal agency. Already regulates AI indirectly through LGPD Article 20 (right to review of automated decisions) and has issued preventive measures against AI training on personal data (notably the 2024 order suspending Meta's use of Brazilian personal data for AI training — real, exercised power). Under PL 2338/2023 as approved by the Senate in December 2024, ANPD would coordinate the proposed Sistema Nacional de Regulação e Governança de IA (SIA). Can investigate, issue preventive suspension orders, and fine (LGPD fines up to 2% of Brazilian turnover, capped at BRL 50 million per infraction).", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "Mixed. ANPD genuinely runs open consultations and genuinely enforces. But the consultation infrastructure moved during 2025–26 (Participa+Brasil shut down, replaced by Brasil Participativo), so verify any URL before use. Formal complaint filing requires a gov.br account tied to a CPF (Brazilian taxpayer number), which effectively excludes non-residents. Everything is in Portuguese. Informal email to ANPD's ouvidoria is the realistic foreign route, but I could not verify that address.", "notes": "Brazil is not a network member and has no AI safety institute.", "routes": { "anpd-consultation-ai-data": { "label": "ANPD consultation on AI and data protection (Participa+Brasil archive)", "scope": "closed consultation", "note": "VERIFIED fetched — and the result is important: this consultation is CLOSED ('Envio de opiniões não permitido') and the entire Participa+Brasil platform has been SHUT DOWN ('o Participa +Brasil foi ENCERRADO!'). Any directory still citing Participa+Brasil is broken." }, "migration-contact-replacement-platform": { "label": "Migration contact for the replacement platform (Brasil Participativo)", "scope": "platform enquiries", "note": "VERIFIED — published on the Participa+Brasil shutdown notice that I fetched. This is a platform-administration mailbox, not an ANPD policy channel." }, "anpd-official-site": { "label": "ANPD official site (complaints / peticionamento)", "scope": "data protection complaints", "note": "UNVERIFIED URL. ANPD complaints normally run through the federal Fala.BR / peticionamento eletrônico system, which typically requires a gov.br account — obtainable in practice only with a CPF." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" }, "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } }, "ai_jurisdiction": "Currently: data protection enforcement under the LGPD where AI processes personal data, plus a Regulatory Sandbox for AI project. Prospectively: the leading candidate to coordinate the Sistema Nacional de Governança da IA (SIA). ANPD filed formal proposed amendments to the substitutive text of PL 2338 — it is an active participant in shaping its own future mandate, not a passive recipient.", "business": "AI Regulatory Sandbox project (an international award finalist). Open 'tomadas de subsídios' (calls for contributions) for its regulatory agenda, with contributions accepted until 16 October, including a topic on 'IA e proteção dos dados dos Titulares' (AI and data subjects' data protection). Proposed amendments to the PL 2338 substitutive are published on its site. Competing 2026 bills (PL 762/2026, PL 704/2026) would give ANPD the lead AI supervisory role with mandatory algorithmic impact assessments.", "public_route": "Two formal instruments. (1) CONSULTA PÚBLICA — formal public consultation on a draft regulation, with a published response. (2) TOMADA DE SUBSÍDIOS — an earlier-stage, more open call for evidence used to shape the regulatory agenda before drafting. Both are announced on gov.br/anpd and usually run through the federal Participa + Brasil platform. There is also a complaints channel (petição de titular) for individual LGPD violations, which is a genuine individual remedy.", "format_rules": "None. Open to any person or organisation. The individual complaint route requires first attempting contact with the controller.", "realistic": "Genuinely usable, and the tomada de subsídios instrument is unusually open — it invites input before a draft exists, which is the stage at which input actually matters. Any Portuguese speaker can file. The ANPD publishes contributions and its responses. The one honest caveat: the 16 October deadline mentioned on its site does not state a year on the page as read, so confirm the year before relying on it. The individual complaint channel is a real, working remedy for an ordinary person whose data was misused by an AI system — that is the most concretely useful thing in this entry.", "language_note": "Portuguese only.", "note": "ANPD's AI sandbox, its open tomadas de subsídios including an AI-and-data-protection topic, and its formal amendment proposals to PL 2338 are VERIFIED from gov.br/anpd. THE DIRECTOR-PRESIDENT IS DELIBERATELY UNVERIFIED AND UNNAMED — the site's leadership page was not retrieved and I will not guess. The 16 October deadline is verified as stated on the site but its year is UNVERIFIED. The claim that ANPD will lead the SIA is a proposal in pending bills, NOT current law.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Director-President — I did not verify the current officeholder and will not name one. 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Both remain available for any Senate matter.", "format_rules": "None for consultation voting or commenting. Free registration required.", "realistic": "The Senate consultation tools are genuinely easy — free registration, click to support or oppose, leave a comment, no gatekeeping. But for AI specifically this is now a dead channel: the bill left the Senate in March 2025. Included here so the seat is correctly identified as historical rather than current. Re-engage with the Senate only when the Chamber returns an amended text.", "language_note": "Portuguese only.", "note": "Senate approval date (10 December 2024), the parecer number, the relator, the author and the 17 March 2025 remittance to the Chamber are all VERIFIED from the Senate's own matéria page for PL 2338/2023. CTIA membership is UNVERIFIED — the commission is dissolved and its roster was not retrieved.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Relator: Sen. 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A temporary special committee of the Chamber of Deputies, 57th Legislature, created to analyse PL 2338/2023 (the Marco Legal da IA) after the Senate passed it. Under Brazil's rapporteur system, the relator's substitutive text is what the Chamber votes on — the relator, not the committee president, is the controlling seat.", "business": "Status as of September 2026: 'Aguardando Parecer do(a) Relator(a) na Comissão Especial' — still awaiting the rapporteur's opinion, sixteen months after his designation. 31 meetings held, 180 guests heard, 163 proposals voted. 37 bills now appended (apensados) to PL 2338/2023, with further appendings approved by the Mesa Diretora on 17 June, 1 September and 2 September 2026. The bill is under regime de prioridade (Art. 151, II, RICD) and will go to Plenary. The government's own AI governance bill creating the Sistema Nacional de Governança para a IA (SIA), proposed December 2025, was articulated with the relator and folded into this process. Separately PL 762/2026 (Rubens Pereira Júnior, PT-MA, 25 Feb 2026, high-consequence-sector AI framework amending the LGPD, Marco Civil and Consumer Code) was appended to PL 7132/2025 and received by this committee on 6 April 2026.", "public_route": "Three real routes. (1) AUDIÊNCIAS PÚBLICAS — the committee has held 31 meetings and heard 180 guests; hearing requests are made by deputies, but civil society organisations are routinely invited and Data Privacy Brasil, IDEC and others have appeared. The route for an outsider is to ask a committee member to request your inclusion. (2) Written contributions sent directly to the committee secretariat or to the relator's office (gabinete) — Brazilian practice accepts and often publishes these as 'contribuições'. (3) e-Democracia, the Chamber's citizen participation portal, which runs Wikilegis text-commenting and enquetes on bills.", "format_rules": "No threshold for written contributions or e-Democracia comments. Speaking at a hearing requires a deputy's request (requerimento) approved by the committee.", "realistic": "Better than most. Brazil's legislature is genuinely more porous to civil society than Japan's or Korea's — 180 guests heard is a real number, and organised Brazilian civil society has demonstrably shaped this text. But 'ordinary person' is a stretch: hearing slots go to organisations, and the effective lever is the relator's office, which is lobbied intensively and privately. A Portuguese-speaking individual can file a written contribution and comment on e-Democracia at no cost and with no gatekeeping, and that is a real if modest channel. A non-Portuguese speaker is effectively excluded. Note also that the committee has been 'awaiting the relator's opinion' since 2025 — the schedule slips repeatedly, so windows that look closed often reopen.", "language_note": "Portuguese only. The Chamber portal has no functional English participation layer.", "note": "President and relator VERIFIED from the Chamber's own news release (camara.leg.br/noticias/1160383, dated 20 May 2025) and the relator designation VERIFIED from the bill's tramitação sheet (idProposicao 2487262). Meeting/guest/proposal counts and current status VERIFIED from the committee's official page. The /membros sub-page returned HTTP 500 during this research, so the current full membership list is UNVERIFIED — the URL is given because it is the correct official location, not because it was read.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Presidente: Dep. Luisa Canziani (PSD-PR). Relator: Dep. Aguinaldo Ribeiro (PP-PB), designated 20 May 2025. Committee installed 20 May 2025. 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Funds and directs AI safety research (investigator-led and government-directed streams, with CIFAR running a research programme and Amii/Mila/Vector involved); advises government on risks from advanced AI systems; produces guidance for developers and the public. Purely research/advisory — Canada has NO in-force AI statute after AIDA (Bill C-27) died on prorogation in January 2025, so CAISI cannot compel or fine anyone.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "Genuinely reachable: a published bilingual government mailbox on a federal domain. Canada's federal correspondence norms mean a foreigner writing in English or French will normally get at least an acknowledgement. But with no AI statute in force there is nothing to complain about in a legally operative sense — CAISI is a funder and adviser.", "notes": "Its page references advanced-AI risks including systems that 'may be dangerous or hinder human oversight' and synthetic-content harms, but stops well short of explicit catastrophic/existential framing. Acronym clashes with the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (also CAISI).", "routes": { "caisi-general-mailbox": { "label": "CAISI general mailbox", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED — published directly on the ISED CAISI page and fetched. One of only two clearly published AISI mailboxes worldwide outside the US/UK/EU." }, "ised-caisi-page": { "label": "ISED CAISI page (incl. 'Report a problem' form)", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. No dedicated consultation docket published here." }, "cifar-caisi-research-program": { "label": "CIFAR CAISI Research Program", "scope": "research funding", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). 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It died on the Order Paper when Parliament was prorogued in January 2025 and was never reintroduced. Canada therefore has NO general AI statute as at September 2026. What replaced it is not a law but a strategy plus targeted bills: 'AI for All', Canada's national AI strategy, launched by Prime Minister Mark Carney on 4 June 2026, built on three pillars (trust, opportunity, sovereignty), targeting a rise in AI adoption from 12% to 60% by 2034 and 250,000 new AI-related jobs over five years. Alongside it: the Protecting Victims Act (introduced December 2025) to prohibit distribution of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, and new legislation tabled in June 2026 on children's data and privacy. Commitments to modernise digital frameworks cover deepfakes and surveillance pricing.", "public_route": "Write to the minister; respond to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada consultations; or, more effectively, put the point into an INDU brief where it enters the parliamentary record.", "format_rules": "Ministerial correspondence is not published and has no set format.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 from the Prime Minister of Canada's official news release of 4 June 2026 launching AI for All, which names Evan Solomon in that portfolio. AIDA's death by prorogation is well established; I did not find any successor AI bill, and I am explicitly NOT claiming one exists.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation (also Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario)" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development.html", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "3e0c7e5fce", "research_order": 105, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "ca-house-commons-canada-committee-brief-submission", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "ca", "label": "Canada" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/Participate", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "6dd99bb62d22" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/procedure/guides/brief-e.html", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "9ab1e4ad3f75" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "entity_key": "entity-9f394905-fe2c-4e8b-a66f-0f57bb626ad7", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "House of Commons of Canada — committee brief submission system (the public route)", "ai_jurisdiction": "The mechanism, not a body. Every Commons standing, special and legislative committee accepts briefs from the public on any study it is conducting.", "public_route": "Go to the committee's page, find the active study, and send a brief to the clerk by email or the online form. No invitation is needed. This is genuinely underused: most Canadian committee studies receive a small number of briefs, so a well-made one is disproportionately likely to be quoted in the report. You may also ask to appear as a witness — the request is made to the clerk in the same email.", "format_rules": "Maximum 10 pages. Longer briefs require a summary of no more than 500 words, and the committee may translate and circulate only that summary. English or French; the clerk arranges translation, and members will not receive the brief until it exists in both languages — so submit well before the study's hearings end. Author identified on the cover, personal contact details in the email only. Briefs become public archives, may be published online, and authors are listed in the committee's report.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 against the official procedural guide at ourcommons.ca/procedure/guides/brief-e.html.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/Participate", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/procedure/guides/brief-e.html", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "2a9d942e44", "research_order": 104, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "ca-house-commons-standing-committee-access-information", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "ca", "label": "Canada" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/ETHI/Members", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "7d3dc5860d62" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/ETHI", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "a1bfec0449ba" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "John Brassard, MP (Conservative, Barrie South—Innisfil, Ontario)", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "privacy", "surveillance", "government-use" ], "powers": [ "oversee" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:privacy": "Privacy, data protection and ethics oversight", "topics:surveillance": "facial recognition", "topics:government-use": "government use of AI tools", "powers:oversee": "the committee that handles algorithmic and automated decision-making from a rights and privacy angle, facial recognition, and government use of AI tools" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-cd2ed8f4-a371-4841-be52-55727b10fadd", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI)", "ai_jurisdiction": "Privacy, data protection and ethics oversight — the committee that handles algorithmic and automated decision-making from a rights and privacy angle, facial recognition, and government use of AI tools. The natural home for AI-and-privacy work now that AIDA is dead and the privacy half of Bill C-27 has been reintroduced separately.", "business": "Statutory Review of the Lobbying Act; a study on the connection between the Minister of Finance and National Revenue and Alto; Main Estimates 2026-27. No AI-titled study was active as at this check.", "public_route": "Same brief system as INDU — any individual or organisation may submit, unsolicited, at any time.", "format_rules": "Max 10 pages, or a 500-word summary if longer; either official language; published on the committee website and listed in reports.", "key_people": "Vice-Chairs: Linda Lapointe (Liberal, Rivière-des-Mille-Îles) and Luc Thériault (Bloc Québécois, Montcalm).", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 from the ETHI committee page. Note the chair is an opposition (Conservative) MP — ETHI is one of the committees chaired by the Official Opposition under Canadian practice.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chair" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/ETHI/Members", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/ETHI", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "65cc41bde3", "research_order": 103, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "ca-house-commons-standing-committee-industry-technology", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "ca", "label": "Canada" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU/Members", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "086f22faa872" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "dbd347febe46" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "petition", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Ben Carr, MP (Liberal, Winnipeg South Centre, Manitoba)", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "competition" ], "powers": [ "legislate", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:competition": "Industry, science, technology, telecommunications, competition and innovation policy.", "powers:legislate": "It was the committee that studied Bill C-27 (which contained the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act) clause by clause", "powers:publish": "submitters are listed in committee reports" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-c4856743-5a50-4670-96fd-93d6c0be6b05", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology (INDU)", "ai_jurisdiction": "The lead Commons committee for AI. Industry, science, technology, telecommunications, competition and innovation policy. It was the committee that studied Bill C-27 (which contained the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act) clause by clause, and it is now running a dedicated AI study.", "business": "Four active studies as at 22 Sep 2026, including 'Opportunities, Risks, and Regulation of AI in Canada's Strategic Industries'. The others: Financial Fraud and Scams in Canada; Federal Government's Electric Vehicle Policies; U.S. Tariffs and the Canadian Metallurgical Sector.", "public_route": "Submit a brief. Canada's brief system is the most open of the five jurisdictions here: 'Any individual or organization may submit a brief to a committee of the House of Commons, even if they are not given the opportunity to appear.' You do not need an invitation and you do not need to be Canadian. Send it to the committee clerk by email or through the online form; contact details are on the committee page.", "format_rules": "EXACT RULES: a brief should not exceed 10 pages. If longer, you must include a summary of no more than 500 words, which the committee may translate and distribute INSTEAD of the full document — so the 500-word summary is the part that actually gets read. May be submitted in either official language; the clerk coordinates translation, so submit early. Identify the author/organisation clearly on the cover; put your personal contact details in the covering email, NOT on the cover page. Support claims with concise factual information; put specific, summarised recommendations at the end; cite all quoted material in footnotes or a bibliography; visuals in black and white and preferably bilingual. Briefs become part of the committee's public archives, may be posted on the committee website, and submitters are listed in committee reports.", "key_people": "Vice-Chairs: Raquel Dancho (Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul) and Gabriel Ste-Marie (Bloc Québécois, Joliette—Manawan). Members: Parm Bains, Karim Bardeesy, Doly Begum, Adam Chambers (CPC), Harb Gill (CPC), Jason Groleau (CPC), Leslyn Lewis (CPC), Michael Ma, Bienvenu-Olivier Ntumba, Dominique O'Rourke.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 from the INDU committee page and the official 'Guide for submitting briefs to House of Commons Committees' at ourcommons.ca/procedure/guides/brief-e.html.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chair" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU/Members", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "0091d676c7", "research_order": 102, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "ch-federal-office-communications-swiss-ai-regulation", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "ch", "label": "Switzerland" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "bakom-artificial-intelligence-page", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.bakom.admin.ch/en/artificial-intelligence", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "de, fr, it, en", "source_id": "fbeb660d99f4" }, { "id": "federal-chancellery-ai-regulation", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.bk.admin.ch/en/regulation", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "de, fr, it, en", "source_id": "69c16cfe4511" }, { "id": "swiss-federal-consultation-procedure", "type": "consultation", "value": null, "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "de, fr, it" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.bakom.admin.ch/en/artificial-intelligence", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "9c48a6ec90d3" } ], "local_name": "Bundesamt für Kommunikation (BAKOM) / Office fédéral de la communication (OFCOM)", "region": "Europe (non-EU)", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "law", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "international" ], "not_topics": [ "government-use" ], "powers": [ "advise", "legislate" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:international": "ratify the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI", "not_topics:government-use": "with the Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzlei) handling federal-administration AI use", "powers:advise": "Advisory/legislative-preparation, not a regulator of AI.", "powers:legislate": "BAKOM/OFCOM leads the legislative drafting" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-72ced6ac-e136-42fe-9415-b496a2011542", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM / BAKOM) — Swiss AI regulation lead", "remit": "Switzerland has NO AI safety institute and no comprehensive AI act. In February 2025 the Federal Council chose a sectoral, minimally-invasive approach: ratify the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI (signed by Switzerland) and make only targeted sectoral legal amendments, with non-binding measures elsewhere. BAKOM/OFCOM leads the legislative drafting, with the Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzlei) handling federal-administration AI use. Consultation drafts were expected through 2026. Advisory/legislative-preparation, not a regulator of AI.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "Switzerland's Vernehmlassung (consultation) procedure is genuinely open: anyone, including foreign organisations, may submit, and all submissions are published in full. That is a real and unusual channel. But there was no verified live AI consultation at the time of checking, and Switzerland is NOT a network member and has no AI safety institute. Swiss federal sites are in German, French and Italian with partial English.", "notes": "Switzerland signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI. Ratification was in progress. No frontier-risk-specific institutional stance identified.", "routes": { "bakom-artificial-intelligence-page": { "label": "BAKOM artificial intelligence page", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). Not fetched." }, "federal-chancellery-ai-regulation": { "label": "Federal Chancellery AI regulation page", "scope": "federal administration AI", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "swiss-federal-consultation-procedure": { "label": "Swiss federal consultation procedure (Vernehmlassung)", "scope": "draft legislation", "note": "UNVERIFIED URL. The Vernehmlassung process is formally open to ANY interested party including foreign ones — submissions are published. This is the single most foreigner-accessible legislative comment process in this directory, but I did not verify a live AI consultation." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bakom.admin.ch/en/artificial-intelligence", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.bk.admin.ch/en/regulation", "checked": null } ], "legacy_id": "8f6c45f27c", "research_order": 44, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cl-chile-artificial-intelligence-bill-ministry-science", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "cl", "label": "Chile" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "chilean-senate-legislative-tracking", "type": "docket", "value": null, "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "es" } ], "local_name": "Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación; Proyecto de ley que regula los sistemas de inteligencia artificial", "region": "Latin America", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "law", "systemic" ], "powers": [ "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:advise": "Until passage, the ministry is a policy body only." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-3e2418e7-830c-4917-a134-cab2445a382f", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Chile — Artificial Intelligence Bill (Boletín 16821-19) and Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation", "remit": "STATUS AS OF SEPT 2026: STILL A BILL. Chile's comprehensive AI bill, sent by the executive in May 2024 and modelled on the EU AI Act's risk tiers (unacceptable / high / limited / no evident risk), was still in Senate committee proceedings as of February 2026. It would designate an existing or new supervisory authority with sanctioning powers. Chile also has an updated National AI Policy (2024) and leads the Latin American AI Index (ILIA) with Brazil and Uruguay. Until passage, the ministry is a policy body only.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "Chile is the most regulatorily advanced Spanish-speaking jurisdiction on AI but still has no law in force. Its previous AI policy consultations were genuinely open and Chile has a good record of participatory policymaking, but I verified no live channel and no URLs. Spanish only. No frontier-risk dimension beyond what it inherits from the EU AI Act template.", "notes": "Listed with low confidence. Verify the bill's status directly before publishing — Latin American AI bills have slipped repeatedly.", "routes": { "chilean-senate-legislative-tracking": { "label": "Chilean Senate legislative tracking", "scope": "legislative record", "note": "UNVERIFIED — I did not verify a Senate URL for this bill. Chilean congressional committees do receive written submissions and hear external experts, but the process is Spanish-language and by invitation." } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "50936950e0", "research_order": 64, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json", "unsourced": "No URL was found for this entity during research (input/data/institutions.json). It needs a source before it can be relied on." } }, { "id": "cn-beijing-institute-ai-safety-governance", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "People's Republic of China (Beijing municipality)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "institute-website", "type": "form", "value": "https://beijing-aisi.ac.cn/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "zh, en", "source_id": "c9c57402b6a0" }, { "id": "institute-website-2", "type": "form", "value": "https://beijing.ai-safety-and-governance.institute/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "03ce58752cd2" }, { "id": "github-organisation", "type": "form", "value": "https://github.com/Beijing-AISI", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "a707b56dd0c8" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://beijing-aisi.ac.cn/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "d6724bfd7fe9" } ], "local_name": "北京前瞻人工智能安全与治理研究院", "region": "China", "public_input": "none", "tags": [ "harm" ], "topics": [ "safety-testing", "international" ], "powers": [ "test-models" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:safety-testing": "Works on AI safety evaluation and benchmarking", "topics:international": "governance research, and international engagement", "powers:test-models": "Works on AI safety evaluation and benchmarking" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-ef7b1b3b-a38c-4a90-bc42-b9ff89fffe32", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance (Beijing-AISI)", "remit": "Research institute founded in the Beijing AI ecosystem, associated with Yi Zeng (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), who is also a member of the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI and a leading Chinese voice on AI risk. Works on AI safety evaluation and benchmarking (it hosts a 'foresight safety bench'), governance research, and international engagement. Research body with no regulatory power. A separate Beijing Key Laboratory of AI Safety and Super Alignment also exists at Beijing Normal University — do not conflate them.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "Academically open in the normal way — its people publish, attend international venues, and are contactable as individual researchers. Institutionally it publishes no contact channel I could verify. The realistic route for a foreigner is academic: cite or engage with their published work, or contact Yi Zeng directly through his CAS affiliation. Not a channel for public complaints.", "notes": "The '.institute' vanity domain and the shared redirect from the CnAISDA network domain suggest a deliberate outward-facing internationalisation effort by this group.", "routes": { "institute-website": { "label": "Institute website (Chinese domain)", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED exists and serves an English locale (?lng=en). JavaScript-rendered — no contact details were machine-readable." }, "institute-website-2": { "label": "Institute website (English domain)", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED exists. Also JS-rendered; no contact details extractable." }, "github-organisation": { "label": "GitHub organisation", "scope": "technical/research", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). For a researcher this is likely the most practical contact surface — GitHub issues on their published benchmarks." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://beijing-aisi.ac.cn/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://beijing.ai-safety-and-governance.institute/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "c265128024", "research_order": 50, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cn-china-ai-safety-development-association", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "People's Republic of China" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "cnaisda-website-join-us", "type": "form", "value": "https://cnaisi.cn/jrwm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "4f37a172bf75" }, { "id": "cnaisda-homepage", "type": "form", "value": "https://cnaisi.cn/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "8d9db3c8d18d" }, { "id": "alternative-domain", "type": "form", "value": "https://ai-development-and-safety-network.cn/institutes", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "fbb3effbc6f8" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://cnaisi.cn/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "f6c12a0bddbe" } ], "local_name": "中国人工智能发展与安全研究网络", "region": "China", "public_input": "none", "topics": [ "international", "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "convene" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:international": "widely described as China's counterpart to the international AISI network", "topics:frontier-ai": "'early warning thresholds for AI systems that may pose catastrophic or existential risks to humans'", "powers:convene": "It is a coordinating network, not an institute" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-d726088c-62f1-43a3-ae32-9538528242b8", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "China AI Safety and Development Association (CnAISDA)", "remit": "STATUS DELIBERATELY AMBIGUOUS. Unveiled around the Paris AI Action Summit (Feb 2025) and widely described as China's counterpart to the international AISI network. It is a coordinating network, not an institute: it has no independent staff, no research team and no dedicated budget, and federates existing bodies — Tsinghua University (the intellectual centre), Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), CAICT, Shanghai AI Laboratory, the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CCID, and MIIT-linked research groups. Fu Ying described it as 'established with government support'; the precise governmental relationship has never been clarified. Note the Chinese name translates as 'network' (研究网络), not 'association' — the English branding and the Chinese branding do not match.", "powers_text": "convene", "reality_check": "CnAISDA is real but thin. It exists primarily as a diplomatic interface — something for foreign counterparts to talk to. Its website is English-first, which is itself telling: it is built for foreigners, not for Chinese stakeholders. But I could not extract a single contact address from it. There is no public input process. Practical access for a foreigner is through the individual member institutions or through Concordia AI as intermediary, not through CnAISDA itself.", "notes": "It notably calls for 'early warning thresholds for AI systems that may pose catastrophic or existential risks to humans' — the most explicit catastrophic-risk language from any China-linked body. China is NOT a member of the international network; CnAISDA is the parallel structure. Name inconsistency (Association vs Network) is genuine and unresolved.", "routes": { "cnaisda-website-join-us": { "label": "CnAISDA website / 'Join Us' page", "scope": "membership enquiry", "note": "VERIFIED that the page exists and is titled 'China AI Safety & Development Association - Join Us'. The site is JavaScript-rendered and I could NOT read any email, form or address from it. Reported elsewhere to list a Tsinghua phone number and address — UNVERIFIED." }, "cnaisda-homepage": { "label": "CnAISDA homepage", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED exists; content not machine-readable." }, "alternative-domain": { "label": "Alternative domain (redirects)", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED — this domain 302-redirects to beijing-aisi.ac.cn, indicating shared infrastructure with the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance. Worth noting: the 'network' and Yi Zeng's Beijing institute are technically entangled." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://cnaisi.cn/jrwm", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://cnaisi.cn/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://ai-development-and-safety-network.cn/institutes", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "9683cb1077", "research_order": 49, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cn-china-internet-illegal-harmful-information-reporting", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "People's Republic of China" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "12377-reporting-centre", "type": "complaint", "value": "https://www.12377.cn/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh", "source_id": "4f3a6580386b" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.12377.cn/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "c09e4c246eb2" } ], "local_name": "中央网信办违法和不良信息举报中心", "region": "China", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "harm" ], "topics": [ "deepfakes", "transparency" ], "not_topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "handle-complaints" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:deepfakes": "unlabelled or non-compliant AI-generated content falls within its scope", "topics:transparency": "unlabelled or non-compliant AI-generated content falls within its scope", "not_topics:frontier-ai": "A foreigner raising a frontier-safety concern here would be using the wrong instrument entirely", "powers:handle-complaints": "CAC's public reporting channel for illegal and harmful online information." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-cd5e512e-5c67-48e6-b78a-849b845a586d", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "China Internet Illegal and Harmful Information Reporting Centre (12377)", "remit": "CAC's public reporting channel for illegal and harmful online information. Under the Labelling Measures for AI-Generated Synthetic Content and the Generative AI Interim Measures, unlabelled or non-compliant AI-generated content falls within its scope. Reports feed CAC enforcement, which can compel takedown and service suspension.", "powers_text": "investigate", "reality_check": "Honest assessment: this is a domestic content-policing channel, not an AI safety channel. It is Chinese-language only, is oriented to reporting content the state considers illegal or harmful, and typically expects real-name or Chinese-phone-number registration. A foreigner raising a frontier-safety concern here would be using the wrong instrument entirely, and I could not even verify the site's current form. Include it in a directory only with a clear caveat.", "notes": "I was unable to fetch this site during research — flagged as requiring manual verification.", "routes": { "12377-reporting-centre": { "label": "12377 reporting centre", "scope": "content complaints about services operating in China", "note": "UNVERIFIED — fetch was blocked (permission/provenance failure). This is the well-known official CAC reporting centre but I did NOT confirm its current scope, form fields, or whether AI-generated content is an explicit reporting category. Re-verify before publishing." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.12377.cn/", "checked": null } ], "legacy_id": "c04600e6cc", "research_order": 46, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cn-cyberspace-administration-china", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "People's Republic of China" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "cac-official-site-generative", "type": "docket", "value": "https://www.cac.gov.cn/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "zh", "source_id": "a8b97bfa4b42" }, { "id": "ai-safety-governance-framework", "type": "docket", "value": "https://www.cac.gov.cn/2025-09/15/c_1759653448369123.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "zh", "source_id": "77268687cdd8" }, { "id": "internet-information-service-algorithm", "type": "form", "value": "https://beian.cac.gov.cn/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh", "source_id": "4d40d4024c1e" }, { "id": "page-level-error-report", "type": "complaint", "value": "/cms/pub/interact/jiucuo.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "zh", "source_id": "39b3545d7523" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.cac.gov.cn/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "309b805420b4" } ], "local_name": "国家互联网信息办公室 / 中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室", "region": "China", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "deepfakes", "transparency", "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "make-rules", "enforce", "fine" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:deepfakes": "Deep Synthesis Provisions (2023)", "topics:transparency": "Labelling Measures for AI-Generated Synthetic Content", "topics:frontier-ai": "Interim Measures for Generative AI Services (2023)", "powers:make-rules": "CAC does run real public-comment windows on draft measures (征求意见稿)", "powers:enforce": "Can order rectification, suspend or terminate services, remove apps from stores, refer for criminal prosecution, and fine.", "powers:fine": "Can order rectification, suspend or terminate services, remove apps from stores, refer for criminal prosecution, and fine." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-c178d6d0-80c8-4793-9cd0-2b1921da134d", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)", "remit": "China's principal AI content regulator and by far the most powerful body in this directory. Administers the Algorithmic Recommendation Provisions (2022), Deep Synthesis Provisions (2023), Interim Measures for Generative AI Services (2023) and the Labelling Measures for AI-Generated Synthetic Content (in force 1 Sept 2025). Runs the algorithm and generative-AI filing (备案) regimes. Can order rectification, suspend or terminate services, remove apps from stores, refer for criminal prosecution, and fine. Co-published the AI Safety Governance Framework 2.0 (人工智能安全治理框架2.0) on 15 September 2025 at National Cybersecurity Publicity Week, with the National Internet Emergency Center coordinating and TC260 handling the technical file.", "powers_text": "compel", "reality_check": "CAC does run real public-comment windows on draft measures (征求意见稿), and international companies and law firms have in practice filed comments on drafts such as the Generative AI Interim Measures. Those windows are real. But: they are Chinese-language only, run 30 days or less, are announced without notice, and the filing systems behind them (算法备案, 大模型备案) require a Chinese business entity and real-name verification. There is no route by which an individual foreigner obtains standing. Framework 2.0 is a guidance document with no complaint mechanism attached.", "notes": "Framework 2.0 refines risk classification and explores risk grading relative to the 2024 version. The document series does address loss-of-control (失控) risk categories, though the announcement page I fetched does not detail them. CAC is not a member of, and China does not participate in, the international network.", "routes": { "cac-official-site-generative": { "label": "CAC official site — generative AI filing announcements", "scope": "official notices", "note": "VERIFIED accessible. CAC publishes bi-monthly lists of filed generative-AI services (e.g. the Jan 2026 and Jul 2026 announcements), which is the authoritative public record of which models are legally deployable in China." }, "ai-safety-governance-framework": { "label": "AI Safety Governance Framework 2.0 announcement", "scope": "policy document", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. Confirms publication date and publishing bodies." }, "internet-information-service-algorithm": { "label": "Internet Information Service Algorithm Filing System (算法备案)", "scope": "domestic filers only", "note": "UNVERIFIED — confirmed as the official system via CAC-linked search results, but direct fetch was blocked by robots.txt. Requires a Chinese business licence and real-name credentials. Closed to foreigners in practice." }, "page-level-error-report": { "label": "Page-level error-report link on CAC articles", "scope": "website error corrections only", "note": "VERIFIED present on the fetched CAC article as '【纠错】'. This is a typo/error-correction form, NOT a substantive complaint channel. Do not present it as one." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cac.gov.cn/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.cac.gov.cn/2025-09/15/c_1759653448369123.htm", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "3e5a27a254", "research_order": 45, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cn-ministry-industry-information-technology", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "People's Republic of China" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "miit-public-comment-section", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.miit.gov.cn/gzcy/yjzj/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh", "source_id": "6719aef9cc56" }, { "id": "miit-ai-standardization-technical", "type": "docket", "value": "https://miittc1.caict.ac.cn/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh", "source_id": "45d2b3cac986" }, { "id": "miit-standards-information-service", "type": "docket", "value": "https://std.miit.gov.cn/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh", "source_id": "a150d18d38a0" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.miit.gov.cn/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "52aa82b9ef64" } ], "local_name": "中华人民共和国工业和信息化部", "region": "China", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "standards" ], "not_topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "set-standards", "enforce" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:standards": "AI standardisation", "not_topics:frontier-ai": "It is not a frontier-risk body.", "powers:set-standards": "Runs a standing public-comment section (公开征求意见) on draft standards and guidelines.", "powers:enforce": "Has licensing and administrative-penalty powers over telecoms and industrial operators." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-77748bb9-4219-4983-bd1f-799aa66a6660", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)", "remit": "Industrial regulator for AI as a technology sector: compute infrastructure, telecoms, AI standardisation, humanoid robotics, and the 'AI+' industrial programmes. Issued the 'AI+ Information and Communications' Innovation Development Implementation Opinions (2026–2028) in 2026. Runs a standing public-comment section (公开征求意见) on draft standards and guidelines. Has licensing and administrative-penalty powers over telecoms and industrial operators.", "powers_text": "compel", "reality_check": "MIIT's comment windows are genuine and structurally open — the notices name a contact person and a feedback email. But they are Chinese-language, typically 30 days, aimed at domestic industry and research institutes, and use a downloadable Word feedback form (意见反馈表) with fields for work unit, name, and phone. A foreign individual can technically email a completed form; there is no acknowledgement mechanism and no evidence foreign submissions are considered.", "notes": "MIIT's AI work is developmental/industrial rather than safety-focused. It is not a frontier-risk body.", "routes": { "miit-public-comment-section": { "label": "MIIT public comment section (意见征集)", "scope": "draft standards and guidelines", "note": "PARTIALLY VERIFIED — individual comment notices under this path were confirmed via search (e.g. the 2026 humanoid-robotics standards-system draft at /gzcy/yjzj/art/2026/...), but the section index itself returned a redirect loop on fetch. Each notice carries its own feedback email and deadline inside the notice text." }, "miit-ai-standardization-technical": { "label": "MIIT AI Standardization Technical Committee", "scope": "AI standards", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). Hosted by CAICT." }, "miit-standards-information-service": { "label": "MIIT standards information service platform", "scope": "standards", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.miit.gov.cn/gzcy/yjzj/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://miittc1.caict.ac.cn/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://std.miit.gov.cn/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.miit.gov.cn/", "checked": null } ], "legacy_id": "57fe710633", "research_order": 47, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cn-national-information-security-standardization-technical-committee", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "People's Republic of China" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "draft-standards-open-public", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.tc260.org.cn/tc260/bzzqyj/yjzj_list.shtml", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "zh", "source_id": "43bf7d9b86ec" }, { "id": "standards-implementation-feedback-portal", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.tc260.org.cn/portal/feedback", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh", "source_id": "95a19e0c214d" }, { "id": "secretariat-telephone-fax", "type": "email", "value": "+86-10-64102730 / +86-10-64102731 (fax 64102997)", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "zh", "source_id": "5d63f314f2b8" }, { "id": "ai-safety-governance-framework", "type": "docket", "value": "https://www.tc260.org.cn/upload/2025-09-15/1757911253996041369.pdf", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh", "source_id": "c2db7785c91b" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.tc260.org.cn/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "1d094d6c3fb2" } ], "local_name": "全国网络安全标ardization技术委员会 (全国网络安全标准化技术委员会)", "region": "China", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "standards", "deepfakes", "transparency", "security" ], "powers": [ "set-standards", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:standards": "The standards body that writes China's operative AI safety rules in technical form.", "topics:deepfakes": "Practice Guides on labelling AI-generated synthetic content", "topics:transparency": "Practice Guides on labelling AI-generated synthetic content", "topics:security": "general principles for AI application security", "powers:set-standards": "The standards body that writes China's operative AI safety rules in technical form.", "powers:publish": "Produced the AI Safety Governance Framework (1.0 Sept 2024, 2.0 Sept 2025)" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-501b43de-e1b1-45bd-9dc0-5fca0557e3ea", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (TC260)", "remit": "The standards body that writes China's operative AI safety rules in technical form. Secretariat at the China Electronics Standardization Institute (中国电子技术标准化研究院), under CAC/SAMR guidance. Produced the AI Safety Governance Framework (1.0 Sept 2024, 2.0 Sept 2025), the Ethical Security Guidelines for AI Applications (TC260-005), Practice Guides on labelling AI-generated synthetic content, and in 2026 a draft Practice Guide on general principles for AI application security (TC260-PG-2026NA, 征求意见稿 v1.0, Jan 2026) and a draft development-security guide for agent systems (智能体系统开发安全指南, Sept 2026). Its recommended national standards (GB/T) become de facto mandatory through CAC filing requirements.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "This is the most honest answer to 'can outsiders reach China on AI safety': yes, narrowly, through TC260 draft-standard comment windows — and no, not usefully. The windows are real (typically 30–60 days), the notices name a feedback mailbox, and TC260 has in the past received and visibly incorporated industry comments. But the site is exclusively Chinese with no English page at all (verified), the comment list is JS-rendered and hard to monitor, the feedback template asks for work unit and Chinese contact details, and the entire orientation is toward domestic industry and research institutes. There is no evidence of foreign individual submissions being processed. Anyone building a directory should list TC260 as 'real but effectively domestic-only', and should not promise a working email address — the email changes per notice.", "notes": "TC260, not CAC, is where China's AI safety substance is actually drafted. The Framework 2.0 is the single most useful document for understanding China's official risk taxonomy, including its treatment of loss-of-control risk.", "routes": { "draft-standards-open-public": { "label": "Draft standards open for public comment (标准征求意见)", "scope": "draft national standards", "note": "VERIFIED — this comment-listing URL is published on the TC260 homepage, which I fetched. The list page itself is JavaScript-rendered so I could not read individual notices; each notice carries its own feedback email, contact person and deadline." }, "standards-implementation-feedback-portal": { "label": "Standards implementation feedback portal", "scope": "feedback on standards already in force", "note": "UNVERIFIED — surfaced in search as '网络安全国家标准实施应用信息反馈'; not fetched." }, "secretariat-telephone-fax": { "label": "Secretariat telephone / fax", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED — published in the TC260 site footer, which I fetched. NO email address is published site-wide; emails appear only inside individual draft-comment notices." }, "ai-safety-governance-framework": { "label": "AI Safety Governance Framework 2.0 (full text)", "scope": "policy document", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.tc260.org.cn/tc260/bzzqyj/yjzj_list.shtml", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "79367b0d46", "research_order": 48, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "cn-shanghai-artificial-intelligence-laboratory", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "cn", "label": "People's Republic of China (Shanghai)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "shanghai-ai-lab-website", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.shlab.org.cn/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh", "source_id": "91a2fca0e5eb" }, { "id": "ai45-research-programme", "type": "form", "value": "https://ai45.shlab.org.cn/research/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en, zh", "source_id": "faea6c828b0f" }, { "id": "frontier-ai-risk-management", "type": "docket", "value": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16534", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "f363cf9fe1bc" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.shlab.org.cn/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "9d8f9efa2744" } ], "local_name": "上海人工智能实验室", "region": "China", "public_input": "none", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "frontier-ai", "safety-testing" ], "powers": [ "test-models", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:frontier-ai": "the most substantive frontier-safety research operation in China", "topics:safety-testing": "an accompanying technical risk-analysis report assessing frontier models against cyber-offence, biological/chemical, persuasion, and loss-of-control risk categories", "powers:test-models": "an accompanying technical risk-analysis report assessing frontier models against cyber-offence, biological/chemical, persuasion, and loss-of-control risk categories", "powers:publish": "Published a Frontier AI Risk Management Framework" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-07a1ae1d-5a5b-449d-9160-e9e95928ff27", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Shanghai AI Lab)", "remit": "State-backed AI research laboratory, a CnAISDA member, and the most substantive frontier-safety research operation in China. Published a Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0, with Concordia AI) and an accompanying technical risk-analysis report assessing frontier models against cyber-offence, biological/chemical, persuasion, and loss-of-control risk categories — methodologically comparable to Western frontier safety frameworks. Also produced the AI-45° Law / SafeWork line of research on co-evolving safety and capability. Pure research; no regulatory power.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "This is the one Chinese institution where a foreign AI-safety researcher has a genuinely functioning channel: it publishes in English on arXiv, collaborates openly with Concordia AI, and its researchers respond to academic correspondence. That is a real, working route — but it is a research channel, not a governance or complaint channel. It carries no institutional obligation to respond.", "notes": "Its frontier risk framework is the strongest evidence against the claim that China does not engage with catastrophic risk. It explicitly covers loss-of-control and uncontrolled self-replication.", "routes": { "shanghai-ai-lab-website": { "label": "Shanghai AI Lab website", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). Not fetched; no contact confirmed." }, "ai45-research-programme": { "label": "AI45 research programme", "scope": "research", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "frontier-ai-risk-management": { "label": "Frontier AI Risk Management Framework technical report (arXiv)", "scope": "publication", "note": "UNVERIFIED as fetched, but arXiv is a stable public archive and this is the substantive published output. arXiv author correspondence addresses are the realistic contact route." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.shlab.org.cn/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://ai45.shlab.org.cn/research/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16534", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "4ea37993d0", "research_order": 51, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "es-agencia-espanola-supervision-inteligencia-artificial", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "es", "label": "Spain" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "aesia-general-inquiries", "type": "email", "value": "info@aesia.gob.es", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "es (en likely tolerated)", "source_id": "fe8c7b2ea476" }, { "id": "aesia-human-resources", "type": "email", "value": "rrhh@aesia.gob.es", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "es", "source_id": "12355e791990" }, { "id": "aesia-website", "type": "form", "value": "https://aesia.digital.gob.es/en/es", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en, es, ca, val, gl, eu", "source_id": "eefcb1184e4f" }, { "id": "sede-electronica", "type": "complaint", "value": null, "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "es" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://aesia.digital.gob.es/en/es", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "2b19a48eed55" } ], "local_name": "Agencia Española de Supervisión de la Inteligencia Artificial", "region": "European Union", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm" ], "powers": [ "investigate", "compel", "enforce", "fine", "handle-complaints" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:investigate": "Under the AI Act it can investigate, demand documentation and access to models, order withdrawal of non-compliant systems, and impose administrative fines.", "powers:compel": "Under the AI Act it can investigate, demand documentation and access to models, order withdrawal of non-compliant systems, and impose administrative fines.", "powers:enforce": "Under the AI Act it can investigate, demand documentation and access to models, order withdrawal of non-compliant systems, and impose administrative fines.", "powers:fine": "Under the AI Act it can investigate, demand documentation and access to models, order withdrawal of non-compliant systems, and impose administrative fines.", "powers:handle-complaints": "the right to complain to a market-surveillance authority" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-c2247745-4426-4200-8b72-935face77507", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Agencia Española de Supervisión de la Inteligencia Artificial (AESIA)", "remit": "Created by Royal Decree 729/2023, headquartered in A Coruña — the first dedicated national AI supervisory agency in the EU. Designated as Spain's market-surveillance authority for most of the EU AI Act, attached to the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service. Under the AI Act it can investigate, demand documentation and access to models, order withdrawal of non-compliant systems, and impose administrative fines. Spain's draft national AI law (anteproyecto, 2025) would set the domestic penalty schedule.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "Among the best of any body here for an outsider: a published general mailbox on a .gob.es domain plus a real English-language site. And EU AI Act Article 85 gives any person — explicitly not limited to EU residents — the right to complain to a market-surveillance authority. The catch is that a formal complaint (as opposed to an informal email) typically goes through the sede electrónica, which requires Spanish electronic identity credentials. Informal email is the realistic foreign route.", "notes": "Spain is NOT a member of the international network. AESIA's public materials emphasise ethical/safe use and AI Act compliance; I found no explicit frontier or catastrophic-risk positioning on the pages fetched.", "routes": { "aesia-general-inquiries": { "label": "AESIA general inquiries", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED — published on the AESIA site and fetched." }, "aesia-human-resources": { "label": "AESIA human resources", "scope": "recruitment only", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. Included for completeness; not a policy channel." }, "aesia-website": { "label": "AESIA website (multilingual)", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED fetched — genuinely available in English plus all Spanish co-official languages. Unusually accessible." }, "sede-electronica": { "label": "Sede electrónica (e-government portal for formal filings)", "scope": "formal administrative filings", "note": "UNVERIFIED — a sede electrónica almost certainly exists but no URL was published on the pages I fetched. Formal Spanish administrative filings normally require Cl@ve or a digital certificate, which foreigners generally cannot obtain." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://aesia.digital.gob.es/en/es", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "9d69a70eb4", "research_order": 41, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "eu-ai-act-advisory-forum", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "eu", "label": "European Union" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "register-commission-expert-groups", "type": "docket", "value": "https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=4009", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "1a650ddc706a" }, { "id": "call-applications-join", "type": "form", "value": "no open call at time of checking", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "48fb9ee9177a" }, { "id": "direct-public-contact", "type": "email", "value": "none published", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "b871100fe19b" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-advisory-forum", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "17d6b345d678" } ], "region": "European Union", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "not_topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "not_topics:frontier-ai": "rather than frontier risk — the Scientific Panel is the severe-risk body", "powers:advise": "Purely advisory." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-7571ef48-ed2c-42ee-9772-afceaa59b29f", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "AI Act Advisory Forum", "remit": "CONSTITUTED. Established under Article 67 of the AI Act; 174 members selected from over 700 applications, representing civil society, academia, industry, SMEs and start-ups, serving two-year renewable terms; members were named in 2026. Five bodies hold permanent seats: the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), ENISA, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. It provides technical expertise and balanced stakeholder input to the Commission and the AI Board, works through plenary meetings and thematic subgroups, and prepares opinions and recommendations on request. Purely advisory.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "The Advisory Forum is the AI Act's designated civil-society channel, and it is a MEMBERSHIP channel, not an open one — 174 seats, no public submission route, no contact address. If your organisation is not a member, the practical approach is to work through one that is: the membership list is public on the expert-groups register, and forum members in the civil-society bloc actively solicit input for subgroup positions. Watch for the next call for applications, which is the only moment the door opens. Its remit is the whole AI Act, weighted toward fundamental rights and implementation practicality rather than frontier risk — the Scientific Panel is the severe-risk body.", "notes": "174 seats from 700+ applicants means roughly a one-in-four success rate for applicants — better odds than most assume.", "routes": { "register-commission-expert-groups": { "label": "Register of Commission Expert Groups — Advisory Forum entry (members, agendas, meetings)", "scope": "Public record of membership, meetings and documents.", "note": "VERIFIED — this is the URL the Commission's Advisory Forum page directs stakeholders to." }, "call-applications-join": { "label": "Call for applications to join", "scope": "n/a", "note": "VERIFIED ABSENCE — the Commission's page carries no current call, no deadline and no contact email. The last call drew 700+ applications for 174 seats." }, "direct-public-contact": { "label": "Direct public contact", "scope": "n/a", "note": "VERIFIED ABSENCE." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=4009", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics" ], "legacy_id": "1cd4570ad8", "research_order": 178, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "eu-ai-act-scientific-panel-independent-experts", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "eu", "label": "European Union" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "public-contact-scientific-panel", "type": "email", "value": "none published", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "12a54eacf26c" }, { "id": "indirect-route-via-ai", "type": "email", "value": "CNECT-AIOFFICE@ec.europa.eu", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "b60cf5a6a7cf" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-scientific-panel", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "b77fa7c3d448" } ], "region": "European Union", "public_input": "none", "tags": [ "harm", "insider" ], "topics": [ "frontier-ai", "safety-testing" ], "powers": [ "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:frontier-ai": "where the panel suspects a GPAI model poses a concrete identifiable risk at Union level or meets the Article 51 systemic-risk conditions", "topics:safety-testing": "advising on GPAI classification and evaluation methodologies", "powers:advise": "advising on GPAI classification and evaluation methodologies" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-1077311f-5ed9-4dab-bae4-8b10a01f8e1a", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "AI Act Scientific Panel of Independent Experts", "remit": "CONSTITUTED. Established under Article 68 of the AI Act and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/454; 60 independent experts were recruited and named in 2026 (announced alongside the Advisory Forum around June 2026), serving renewable 24-month terms in a personal capacity, having signed confidentiality and commitment declarations. Its duties: alerting the AI Office to systemic risks, advising on GPAI classification and evaluation methodologies, and supporting market surveillance. Its sharpest instrument is the Article 90 QUALIFIED ALERT: where the panel suspects a GPAI model poses a concrete identifiable risk at Union level or meets the Article 51 systemic-risk conditions, it may issue a reasoned alert naming the provider, on receipt of which the AI Office may exercise its Article 91-94 powers (demand documentation, conduct evaluations, require remedial measures) and must inform the AI Board of measures taken.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT GAP IN THE ENTIRE DIRECTORY. The Scientific Panel is the only body anywhere with a statutory mechanism to force regulatory scrutiny of a specific frontier model on systemic-risk grounds — the Article 90 qualified alert — and there is NO published way for an outside researcher, a whistleblower or a member of the public to bring evidence to it. No email, no form, no submission process. The realistic route is therefore personal: the 60 members are named publicly on the Commission's page, they are working academics with institutional addresses, and approaching an individual panel member with technical evidence is the only practical path. Membership renews on 24-month terms, and the Commission runs public calls for experts — applying is the other way in.", "notes": "Separate from the Advisory Forum. Do not confuse the two: the panel is 60 independent scientists with an alert power; the forum is 174 stakeholders with an opinion-giving role.", "routes": { "public-contact-scientific-panel": { "label": "Public contact for the Scientific Panel", "scope": "n/a", "note": "VERIFIED ABSENCE — the Commission's Scientific Panel page names all 60 members but publishes no contact address, no submission mechanism and no route for outsiders to trigger consideration of a risk." }, "indirect-route-via-ai": { "label": "Indirect route via the AI Office (panel secretariat)", "scope": "The AI Office supports the panel; this is the only published address in the chain.", "note": "VERIFIED on the AI Office page, not on the panel page. 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GPAI obligations have applied since 2 August 2025; the AI Office's enforcement powers over GPAI became exercisable from 2 August 2026.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "The AI Office is the most consequential AI-safety regulator on earth by formal power — it is the only body that can order a frontier model off the market and fine its provider — and it publishes a working email and a genuinely staffed multilingual service desk. But the service desk answers COMPLIANCE questions; it is not a complaints channel and not a policy channel. The real input levers are (1) the multi-stakeholder drafting processes for codes of practice and guidelines, which were genuinely open and where civil-society drafting comments visibly changed text, and (2) the Have your say portal when an implementing act is out for feedback. Systemic-risk GPAI is explicitly within the AI Office's mandate, making this the ONLY jurisdiction where frontier risk is a statutory supervisory duty rather than a research interest.", "notes": "CRITICAL 2026 UPDATE: the Digital Omnibus on AI — Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 — entered into force on 27 July 2026. It DEFERRED high-risk obligations (stand-alone Annex III systems to 2 December 2027; Annex I embedded systems to 2 August 2028) but did NOT defer the GPAI/systemic-risk regime, which has applied since 2 August 2025, and did NOT defer the Article 50 transparency obligations, which apply from 2 August 2026. 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The caveats practitioners repeat: windows are short (often four weeks) and poorly publicised, the Commission weights structured, evidence-bearing responses from identifiable organisations much more heavily than individual comments, and a response that does not engage the specific questions asked is summarised away in one line. Set up an alert on the portal for the AI Act rather than checking periodically — most people miss the window entirely.", "notes": "Complements rather than replaces the AI Office's own targeted multi-stakeholder consultations, which have been the more substantive route for the GPAI Code of Practice.", "routes": { "have-your-say-give": { "label": "Have your say — give feedback on EU initiatives", "scope": "Open to anyone worldwide, though respondents are asked to identify themselves and their category (citizen, company, NGO, public authority). 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On AI, a single MEP's written question can force the Commission to state a position on the record.", "public_route": "Find MEPs at the MEP directory, which searches by member name and by country. Each MEP's individual page publishes their Brussels and Strasbourg office addresses, phone numbers and email. CRUCIAL POINT FOR OUTSIDERS: MEPs are elected from multi-member constituencies (often the whole country) under proportional representation, so you have many MEPs, not one. There is no constituency-service convention equivalent to the UK's — MEPs routinely accept and act on correspondence from people who are not their voters, including from other Member States and from outside the EU, and they are not obliged to refuse it. In practice the group and the committee portfolio matter far more than geography: write to the MEP who holds the AI file, whatever country they represent. Parliament also runs a general citizens' enquiry service ('Ask EP') for questions about the EU and Parliament's work.", "format_rules": "No limits. Correspondence is not published. Replies are at the MEP's discretion; a specific, short, evidenced request to a policy adviser gets a far higher response rate than a mass-campaign email.", "key_people": "For AI specifically: Michael McNamara (Renew, IE), Brando Benifei (S&D, IT), Arba Kokalari (EPP, SE), Reinier van Lanschot (Greens/EFA, NL), plus the four committee chairs listed separately.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22: the MEP directory and the 'Write to us' / Ask EP form are both live official European Parliament pages. The statement that MEPs generally accept non-constituent correspondence reflects the structure of EU elections (no single-member constituencies) rather than a written rule I could cite.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.europarl.europa.eu/forms/en/ask-ep", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "522a9417dd", "research_order": 101, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "eu-national-market-surveillance-authorities-under-ai", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "eu", "label": "Individual EU Member States" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "article-85-right-lodge", "type": "complaint", "value": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/85/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "c7f9ee157cbe" }, { "id": "commission-list-national-single", "type": "form", "value": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/market-surveillance-authorities-under-ai-act", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "e57c0eb16aaa" }, { "id": "named-national-complaint-portals", "type": "complaint", "value": "varies by Member State; no consolidated EU directory published", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "d58a3a3f6a00" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/market-surveillance-authorities-under-ai-act", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "a40ab26cdb42" } ], "region": "European Union", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "harm" ], "not_topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "compel", "enforce", "fine", "handle-complaints" ], "routing_evidence": { "not_topics:frontier-ai": "They do NOT supervise GPAI models; that is the AI Office's exclusive competence.", "powers:compel": "request information, demand documentation", "powers:enforce": "require corrective action, order withdrawal or recall from the market", "powers:fine": "impose penalties set in national law", "powers:handle-complaints": "anyone with grounds may complain and the authority must process it" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-02115e63-065f-47e3-b7bf-6bc28778995e", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "National market surveillance authorities under the AI Act (27 Member States)", "remit": "Supervise and enforce the AI Act's rules for AI SYSTEMS — prohibited practices and high-risk requirements — within their territory, using the powers in Regulation (EU) 2019/1020: request information, demand documentation, require corrective action, order withdrawal or recall from the market, and impose penalties set in national law (up to 7% of global turnover for prohibited practices). They do NOT supervise GPAI models; that is the AI Office's exclusive competence. Member States were required to designate them by 2 August 2025, and many have not: as of June 2026, only 9 Member States had fully designated both market surveillance and notifying authorities, 12 had partial clarity, and 6 had designated none at all.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "Article 85 is the AI Act's single genuine citizen-facing right, live since 2 August 2026 — anyone with grounds may complain and the authority must process it. In practice it is badly broken at the point of use: six Member States have designated nobody, a third have only partial designations, Ireland split the function across fifteen bodies, and the Commission has still not published the consolidated contact directory it promised. So the right exists and the address often does not. Where an authority IS designated and is an existing regulator (Italy's ACN, Denmark's digital agency, Finland's Traficom), complaints land in a functioning inbox. Note the scope limit that catches people out: market surveillance authorities cannot act against a GPAI MODEL provider — that is the AI Office's exclusive competence — so a frontier-model complaint filed nationally will be bounced or forwarded.", "notes": "Around 2,000 bodies across the EU carry some market surveillance function, which is why no single directory works. Always verify your own Member State's designation before filing.", "routes": { "article-85-right-lodge": { "label": "ARTICLE 85 — right to lodge a complaint with a market surveillance authority", "scope": "'Any natural or legal person having grounds to consider that there has been an infringement' of the AI Act may complain to the market surveillance authority of their Member State. The authority must handle it under its Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 procedures, alongside any other administrative or judicial remedy. APPLIES FROM 2 AUGUST 2026 (Article 113).", "note": "VERIFIED — text and applicability date confirmed. Note this citation is to the widely used AI Act Explorer, a non-official but reliable consolidated text; the authoritative text is in the Official Journal." }, "commission-list-national-single": { "label": "Commission list of national Single Points of Contact", "scope": "The Commission page carries a table of designated Single Points of Contact by Member State, with links to some national authorities (e.g. Ireland's AI Office at aioffice.gov.ie).", "note": "VERIFIED — BUT the page itself states 'The Commission is considering the notifications and will publish a list of Single Points of Contact in due time', i.e. the authoritative consolidated directory does NOT yet exist." }, "named-national-complaint-portals": { "label": "Named national complaint portals", "scope": "Designated leads include Cyprus (Commissioner of Communications), Denmark (Danish Agency for Digital Government), Finland (Traficom as SPOC, decentralised model), Hungary (Minister for Enterprise Development), Ireland (15 designated bodies, SPOC is the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment), Italy (National Cybersecurity Agency, with AgID as notifying authority), Lithuania (Communications Regulatory Authority), Malta (Malta Digital Innovation Authority and the IDPC), Slovenia (Agency for Communication Networks and Services).", "note": "VERIFIED via the AI Act national implementation tracker (updated 17 June 2026). Individual national complaint-form URLs were NOT verified and must be checked per country." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/85/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/market-surveillance-authorities-under-ai-act", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics" ], "legacy_id": "844edf4c35", "research_order": 179, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "fr-institut-national-pour-l-evaluation-et", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "fr", "label": "France" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "inesia-roadmap-2026-2027", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/files/Nos_missions/Feuille%20de%20route%20INESIA%202026-2027.pdf", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "fr", "source_id": "68d6665cc140" }, { "id": "inria-announcement-inesia", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.inria.fr/fr/creation-institut-evaluation-securite-intelligence-artificielle", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "fr", "source_id": "b06ae22cb9e0" } ], "local_name": "Institut national pour l'évaluation et la sécurité de l'intelligence artificielle", "region": "European Union", "public_input": "none", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "safety-testing", "frontier-ai", "security" ], "powers": [ "test-models" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:safety-testing": "Research, evaluation and foresight only.", "topics:frontier-ai": "The roadmap commits INESIA to evaluate how high-impact models 'could generate negative real effects", "topics:security": "offensive cyber", "powers:test-models": "The roadmap commits INESIA to evaluate how high-impact models 'could generate negative real effects" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-e180cf18-6342-40e7-9cb9-eda85114c084", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Institut national pour l'évaluation et la sécurité de l'intelligence artificielle (INESIA)", "remit": "Announced 31 Jan 2025 ahead of the Paris AI Action Summit. NOT a new legal entity — it is a coordination structure federating four existing bodies: ANSSI (cyber agency), Inria (public research), LNE (national metrology/testing laboratory) and PEReN (digital-platform regulation expertise centre). Coordinated under SGDSN (Secretariat-General for Defence and National Security), which also handles French participation in the international network. Its published 2026–2027 roadmap is explicit that it 'is not empowered to regulate' and instead supports the authorities implementing the EU AI Act. Research, evaluation and foresight only.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "Worst-in-class for public access among network members. INESIA has no website of its own that I could find, no email, no consultation process, and its own roadmap document publishes zero contact information. Access is only via the four constituent bodies (ANSSI, Inria, LNE, PEReN), each of which has separate French-language channels. A foreigner has no route in.", "notes": "Strongest explicit catastrophic-risk language of any body in this list. The roadmap commits INESIA to evaluate how high-impact models 'could generate negative real effects on public health, safety, security, fundamental rights or society itself, propagated at scale', naming information manipulation, offensive cyber, CBRN (NRBC) proliferation and autonomous-agent behaviours. France is the only EU member state in the international network.", "routes": { "inesia-roadmap-2026-2027": { "label": "INESIA roadmap 2026–2027 (SGDSN)", "scope": "publication", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. Contains NO email, no contact point, and no public engagement channel — I checked specifically." }, "inria-announcement-inesia": { "label": "Inria announcement of INESIA", "scope": "background", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/files/Nos_missions/Feuille%20de%20route%20INESIA%202026-2027.pdf", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "5486ff855b", "research_order": 36, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "gb-ai-security-institute", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "gb", "label": "United Kingdom" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "data-protection-privacy-enquiries", "type": "email", "value": "dataprotection@dsit.gov.uk", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "ac5ba825f7cc" }, { "id": "aisi-contact-page", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/contact", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "74f222948a0b" }, { "id": "research-collaboration-careers", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/careers", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "67f6589b57b9" }, { "id": "public-complaint-or-incident", "type": "complaint", "value": "none", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "5fd7f5efb5c7" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "9618ba69479e" } ], "region": "United Kingdom", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "law", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "frontier-ai", "safety-testing", "security" ], "not_topics": [ "discrimination" ], "powers": [ "test-models", "publish", "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:frontier-ai": "Conducts pre-deployment and post-deployment testing of frontier models", "topics:safety-testing": "Conducts pre-deployment and post-deployment testing of frontier models", "topics:security": "with the focus narrowed toward security, cyber, chemical/biological and criminal-misuse risks", "not_topics:discrimination": "and away from bias and free-speech concerns", "powers:test-models": "Conducts pre-deployment and post-deployment testing of frontier models by voluntary agreement with developers", "powers:publish": "publishes a Frontier AI Trends Report", "powers:advise": "and advises government" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-30bbc136-f2a1-4790-a150-d0228302d4c3", "roles": [ "government" ], "parent_id": "gb-department-science" }, "strings": { "name": "AI Security Institute (AISI)", "remit": "RENAMED: was the 'AI Safety Institute'; renamed the AI Security Institute in February 2025 (announced by written ministerial statement, HLWS454, 24 February 2025), with the focus narrowed toward security, cyber, chemical/biological and criminal-misuse risks and away from bias and free-speech concerns. It is a DIRECTORATE OF DSIT, not an independent agency. Conducts pre-deployment and post-deployment testing of frontier models by voluntary agreement with developers, builds evaluation infrastructure, publishes a Frontier AI Trends Report, and advises government. It has NO statutory powers: it cannot compel access to a model, cannot fine, cannot require testing, and cannot stop a release.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "AISI publishes essentially no way for a member of the public to reach it — one data-protection address, maintained by its parent department. It is deliberately a research organisation, not a regulator, and there is nothing to complain to it about. What DOES reach AISI: publishing technical evaluation work it cites, applying to its research grant calls or open roles, and responding to DSIT consultations that shape its remit. The February 2025 rename was substantive, not cosmetic — 'safety' framing now lands less well than security, misuse and national-resilience framing. Because AISI is a DSIT directorate, parliamentary scrutiny of it happens through the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which is where public evidence about AISI actually gets read.", "notes": "Frontier/catastrophic risk IS squarely in scope — chem/bio, cyber and autonomy evaluations — making it the UK body most focused on severe risk, but also the one least reachable.", "routes": { "data-protection-privacy-enquiries": { "label": "Data protection / privacy enquiries (DSIT DPO, covers AISI)", "scope": "Privacy and data-protection questions only. Published on AISI's privacy policy and monitored by DSIT's Data Protection Officer.", "note": "VERIFIED at https://www.aisi.gov.uk/privacy-policy. This is the ONLY email address AISI publishes anywhere on its site." }, "aisi-contact-page": { "label": "AISI contact page", "scope": "Linked from the site navigation.", "note": "UNVERIFIED — the page exists in AISI's navigation but could not be retrieved (permission/provenance failure on fetch). Its contents could not be confirmed, so do not assume an email is published there." }, "research-collaboration-careers": { "label": "Research collaboration and careers", "scope": "AISI recruits researchers and runs grant programmes; this is the realistic route in for technical people.", "note": "UNVERIFIED as fetched; the careers path is linked from the homepage, which WAS fetched." }, "public-complaint-or-incident": { "label": "Public complaint or incident route", "scope": "n/a", "note": "VERIFIED ABSENCE — AISI is a research body with no complaints function, no regulatory remit and no public reporting channel." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/contact", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/careers", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/", "checked": null } ], "legacy_id": "b30dedb820", "research_order": 167, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "gb-all-party-parliamentary-group-ai-safety", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "gb", "label": "United Kingdom" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "542597a85982" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "02b4a174b573" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law" ], "entity_key": "entity-44fd1708-2048-489a-962a-163d8e1deef8", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI safety (searched for; none found)", "ai_jurisdiction": "A dedicated AI-safety APPG distinct from the APPG on Artificial Intelligence.", "public_route": "If one is later registered it will appear in the Register of All-Party Parliamentary Groups under its own heading; check the current register index.", "note": "UNVERIFIED / NOT FOUND as at 2026-09-22. Searches of the APPG register surfaced only the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence. I found no separately registered AI-safety APPG and am not asserting one exists. 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Its registered purpose: 'The APPG explores the social, economic and societal impact and implications of artificial intelligence.' It has no formal powers but it convenes ministers, officials and MPs, runs evidence sessions and publishes reports — and unlike a select committee it is genuinely open to unsolicited outside contact.", "business": "Ongoing evidence/roundtable programme run by the Big Innovation Centre secretariat. APPG registers are republished roughly every 5–6 weeks; the 29 June 2026 register is the most recent verified entry.", "public_route": "Email the secretariat directly — appg@biginnovationcentre.com (Prof. Birgitte Andersen, tel 07944 783648) — or write to the Chair at allison.gardner.mp@parliament.uk / House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. APPGs accept unsolicited papers, invite outside speakers and have no evidence-window constraint, which makes this the most underused door in Westminster.", "format_rules": "No formal word limit, deadline or publication rule — it is not a parliamentary proceeding. Material is published at the secretariat's discretion. Note that anything you send is not protected by parliamentary privilege.", "key_people": "Co-Chair: Lord Clement-Jones (Liberal Democrat) — the most active AI legislator in the Lords. Vice-Chairs: Dawn Butler MP (Labour); Lord Ranger of Northwood (Conservative). Public enquiry point: Professor Birgitte Andersen, Big Innovation Centre (the APPG's secretariat).", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 from the official Register of All-Party Parliamentary Groups as at 29 June 2026. Dr Gardner also sits on the Commons Science and Technology Committee, which makes her the highest-leverage single UK backbench contact on AI.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chair and Registered Contact" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/260629/artificial-intelligence.htm", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://bicpavilion.com/about_pavilion/appg-artificial-intelligence", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "3952764d2c", "research_order": 87, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "gb-competition-markets-authority", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "gb", "label": "United Kingdom" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "report-competition-or-market", "type": "complaint", "value": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition-or-market-problem", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "a8a451ebf8ab" }, { "id": "general-enquiries", "type": "email", "value": "general.enquiries@cma.gov.uk", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "c691ada04602" }, { "id": "freedom-information-requests", "type": "email", "value": "foiarequests@cma.gov.uk", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "faf856f85598" }, { "id": "cma-consultations-market-study", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/competition-and-markets-authority", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "bfa38209d65f" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/competition-and-markets-authority", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "3d54f043e54e" } ], "region": "United Kingdom", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "harm", "law", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "competition", "consumer-protection" ], "not_topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "compel", "investigate", "enforce", "fine", "handle-complaints" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:competition": "Competition and consumer protection regulator.", "topics:consumer-protection": "Competition and consumer protection regulator.", "not_topics:frontier-ai": "but does not regulate model risk", "powers:compel": "Can compel information", "powers:investigate": "conduct market investigations", "powers:enforce": "block or unwind mergers, impose conduct requirements", "powers:fine": "fine up to 10% of global turnover", "powers:handle-complaints": "Anyone can report suspected anti-competitive conduct, including in AI markets" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-90e82c14-e51f-4cd7-8471-dabfa756ebad", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)", "remit": "Competition and consumer protection regulator. Relevant to AI through foundation-model market studies, merger review of AI partnerships and acqui-hires, and the digital markets competition regime (Strategic Market Status designations under the DMCC Act, which allow the CMA to impose conduct requirements and pro-competition interventions on designated firms). Can compel information, conduct market investigations, block or unwind mergers, impose conduct requirements, and fine up to 10% of global turnover — and under the DMCC regime the CMA can now enforce consumer law directly with fines rather than going to court.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "The CMA's foundation-model market study was unusually open: it published a call for evidence, set up a dedicated study mailbox, met respondents, and quoted submissions in its update reports. That per-study mailbox — not general.enquiries@cma.gov.uk — is where input lands. The general enquiries address is a correspondence unit. The CMA's AI framing is market power and consumer harm, with an explicit concern about concentration in compute and model supply; it has occasionally touched on safety as a competition concern (whether incumbents can be disciplined) but does not regulate model risk. FOI to the CMA is underused and productive.", "notes": "The DMCC regime materially expanded CMA powers; SMS designations are the mechanism to watch for AI-market intervention.", "routes": { "report-competition-or-market": { "label": "Report a competition or market problem", "scope": "Anyone can report suspected anti-competitive conduct, including in AI markets (compute access, model distribution, exclusive partnerships).", "note": "VERIFIED — linked from the CMA's GOV.UK organisation page." }, "general-enquiries": { "label": "General enquiries", "scope": "General correspondence.", "note": "VERIFIED on https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/competition-and-markets-authority. Phone 020 3738 6000. 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Once accepted, evidence becomes the property of the committee, is published online and 'stays public forever' as part of the permanent parliamentary record; you cannot republish it yourself until the committee authorises it. You may request anonymity or confidentiality but the committee decides.", "key_people": "The committee clerk (not the Chair) is the decision-maker on whether a submission is accepted and published. 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It is an Africa-owned, development-first framework covering capacity, infrastructure, datasets, governance and regional cooperation, with an implementation horizon to 2030 and a call for member states to establish national AI strategies and regulatory frameworks. The AU Commission (Department of Infrastructure and Energy / the AU Development Agency AUDA-NEPAD) coordinates; there is no continental AI regulator and no enforcement power. Development was preceded by genuine multistakeholder consultative sessions (2024).", "powers_text": "convene", "reality_check": "The AU ran real open multistakeholder consultations during the strategy's development in 2024, and UNESCO supported the process — so there is precedent for external participation. But there is no standing channel, no AI-specific contact address I could verify, and no implementation body with a public interface. The AU's operating reality is member-state diplomacy. For a global directory, the honest entry is: important for context, not contactable on AI matters.", "notes": "No frontier or catastrophic-risk content — the strategy is explicitly framed around development, sovereignty, and avoiding extractive AI, and African governments have repeatedly argued that frontier-risk framing crowds out their priorities. That tension is itself a finding worth recording.", "routes": { "continental-ai-strategy-document": { "label": "Continental AI Strategy document", "scope": "strategy", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). AU documents are normally published in all four AU working languages." }, "multistakeholder-consultative-sessions-announcement": { "label": "Multistakeholder consultative sessions announcement", "scope": "past consultation", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). 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The EU has ratified; the treaty requires five ratifications including three CoE member states to enter into force, so it is NOT yet in force. Obligations cover human rights, democracy and rule of law across the AI lifecycle.", "threat_model": "Human rights, democracy and rule of law — so democratic-process harms, discrimination, and rule-of-law erosion. Systemic/structural rather than catastrophic-risk framing.", "reality_check": "Open to organised civil society through observer status, closed to individuals. The CAI historically ran genuinely substantive observer participation during drafting — one of the better multilateral records. Slow: entry into force is still pending.", "gov_channel": "Treaty-level — binding on ratifying parties, with implementation reporting through the Conference of the Parties once in force.", "routes": { "council-europe-ai-unit": { "label": "Council of Europe AI unit contact", "scope": "General enquiries to the AI programme" }, "cai-observer-status-international": { "label": "CAI observer status for international NGOs", "scope": "68 representatives from civil society, academia and industry participated as observers in the drafting", "note": "Observer status is granted to organisations, not individuals, and is decided by the committee. 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Publishes technical reports and issue briefs on frontier capability assessments and safety frameworks, with workstreams on AI-Bio, AI-Cyber, AI-Nuclear, AI Security and Safety Frameworks. Runs information-sharing between member labs and with government.", "threat_model": "Severe misuse risk at the frontier — CBRN and offensive cyber uplift — plus security of model weights. Explicitly narrow: it is a misuse-and-security body, not an alignment or near-term-harms body.", "reality_check": "Effectively closed. It is a members' club of the largest labs with a single generic inbox. Sending a concern here is close to sending it to the labs' shared comms function. Its technical publications are worth reading; it is not a route in.", "gov_channel": "Strong and quiet — the FMF is a recognised industry interlocutor for the US and UK governments and for the AI Safety/Security Institute network.", "routes": { "general-enquiries": { "label": "General enquiries", "scope": "The only published address" }, "contact-page": { "label": "Contact page", "scope": "General" }, "membership-criteria": { "label": "Membership criteria (for frontier developers only)", "scope": "Organisations that develop and deploy frontier models and have a safety framework", "note": "Individuals cannot join." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/contact/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/membership/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "b21f5e2e44", "research_order": 90, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-g7-hiroshima-ai-process-reporting-framework", "type": "multilateral", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "G7 / OECD-administered, global voluntary participation" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "haip-transparency-reporting-portal", "type": "submission", "value": "https://transparency.oecd.ai/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "9ec2f95964bd" }, { "id": "haip-overview-framework-documents", "type": "form", "value": "https://oecd.ai/en/hiroshima", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "f326d90aba1a" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://oecd.ai/en/transparency/overview", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "f53be9f9224f" } ], "region": "Other", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "flaw", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "transparency", "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:transparency": "Voluntary transparency reporting", "topics:frontier-ai": "for organisations developing advanced AI", "powers:publish": "reports are published on a public portal" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-87fd1950-0d31-44e6-a880-cc4a01b22826", "roles": [ "multilateral" ] }, "strings": { "name": "G7 Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP) Reporting Framework", "remit": "Voluntary transparency reporting against the G7 Hiroshima Code of Conduct for organisations developing advanced AI. Launched by the OECD Feb 2025; first reports published April 2025; a streamlined version for SMEs launched May 2026. Companies self-report on risk identification, incident handling, security, content authentication and governance; reports are published on a public portal.", "threat_model": "Frontier-developer risk management — misuse, security, and safety-framework adequacy. Self-reported, so it measures disclosure, not actual safety.", "reality_check": "Useful as a source of citable company commitments you can hold firms to (as the Midas Project and SaferAI do), rather than as a place to send a concern. There is no public comment or challenge mechanism against a company's self-report — that gap is exactly what the independent trackers fill.", "gov_channel": "Direct into the G7 and OECD; reports are cited in G7 ministerial work.", "routes": { "haip-transparency-reporting-portal": { "label": "HAIP transparency reporting portal (for organisations that develop AI)", "scope": "AI-developing organisations of any size, voluntary", "note": "Not a channel for the general public; it is a self-disclosure form for developers." }, "haip-overview-framework-documents": { "label": "HAIP overview and framework documents", "scope": "Reference" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://transparency.oecd.ai/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://oecd.ai/en/hiroshima", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "e0ae8f3d49", "research_order": 81, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-generic-method-locating-ai-policy-seat", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "Any other country" }, "facts": { "recommend": false, "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.ipu.org/impact/democracy-and-strong-parliaments/artificial-intelligence/parliamentary-actions-ai-policy", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Method is language-neutral. Applying it is not: assume the participation layer of any national system is monolingual in the national language even when the ministry maintains an English site, and budget for translation. English-language government pages are usually the PR layer, not the participation layer — the Kantei English site is a rare exception that is genuinely current.", "source_id": "0ea86f73b65a" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://data.ipu.org/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Method is language-neutral. Applying it is not: assume the participation layer of any national system is monolingual in the national language even when the ministry maintains an English site, and budget for translation. 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Look for the page named 'Committees' / 'Commissions' / 'Ausschüsse' / 'Comisiones' / '委員会' / '위원회'. AI almost never has its own standing committee. It sits in one of four places, and you should check in this order: (a) the committee shadowing the ICT/digital/communications ministry — the single most common home; (b) the committee shadowing science, technology, innovation or research; (c) the committee shadowing economy/industry/trade, where AI is framed as industrial policy; (d) the justice, home affairs or constitutional committee, where AI is framed as rights, surveillance or liability. In bicameral systems check both chambers — they often differ, and the upper house is frequently more accessible. Also search the site for 'special committee', 'select committee', 'ad hoc', 'temporary' or 'inquiry' plus 'artificial intelligence': many jurisdictions create a one-off AI committee that outranks the standing one, as Brazil and the EU did. CROSS-CHECK against the OECD.AI policy observatory (oecd.ai/en/dashboards) and the IPU's AI tracker, both of which index national AI bodies and are more current than Wikipedia.\n\nSTEP 2 — FIND THE CHAIR. The committee's own page on the parliament site carries the chair and member list; this is the only source to trust. Look for an 'as of' or 'current as at' date stamp on the roster — Japan and Korea both print one, and it is the field that tells you whether the page is stale. Two hard rules learned the hard way in this research. First, NEVER use Wikipedia for a current officeholder: English Wikipedia's Japanese cabinet article was eleven months out of date. Second, ALWAYS check whether the person you found has since been promoted into the executive — in parliamentary systems a committee chair who joins the cabinet must vacate the chair, and rosters lag by weeks. If a roster is stale, corroborate with a same-month news report naming the person in that role. If you cannot corroborate, say UNVERIFIED and give the live URL rather than naming a stale person.\n\nSTEP 3 — FIND WHETHER SUBMISSIONS ARE ACCEPTED. Search the committee or parliament site for: 'call for evidence', 'written submissions', 'inquiry', 'consultation', 'memorandum', 'contribución', 'contribuição', 'Stellungnahme', 'audition', '意見募集', '입법예고'. Three patterns exist and they determine everything. PATTERN A, OPEN CALL (Westminster-derived systems — UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Ireland, India for Bills, South Africa): the committee publishes a call for written evidence with a deadline and an upload form or email; anyone worldwide may submit; submissions are usually published. This is the best case. PATTERN B, PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT (Korea, Japan, most civil-law systems): the legislature is closed, but the EXECUTIVE must publish draft rules for a statutory comment period; go there instead. PATTERN C, CLOSED (Japan's Diet, many others): witnesses by invitation only and petitions require a member's sponsorship; there is no direct route and you must work through a member's office or an affiliated association. Do not pretend Pattern C is Pattern A.\n\nSTEP 4 — THE FOUR UNIVERSAL ROUTES. In nearly every democracy exactly these four exist, in descending order of usefulness. (1) MINISTRY CONSULTATION / NOTICE-AND-COMMENT. Nearly always the highest-value route, because it is statutory, has a defined minimum period, and frequently obliges the agency to publish a response. Find it at the ministry's 'consultations' page or a central portal: e-Gov (Japan), 국민참여입법센터 (Korea), Participa+Brasil (Brazil), regulations.gov (US), 'Have your say' (EU), gov.uk/government/consultations (UK), consultations.gc.ca (Canada). Search ' public consultation portal' plus the local-language term. (2) COMMITTEE EVIDENCE. Highest visibility when Pattern A applies; your text may be published and cited. Zero cost. (3) PETITION. Check whether it has a real trigger or is symbolic — this is the single most important distinction and most people get it wrong. Real triggers: Korea 50,000/30 days forces committee referral; Brazil Senate 20,000/4 months forces CDH consideration; UK 100,000 forces a Westminster Hall debate; EU ECI 1 million across 7 states forces a Commission response; Germany Bundestag 50,000/4 weeks gets a public committee hearing. Symbolic: petitions requiring a legislator's sponsorship (Japan), or with no numeric consequence at all. Always establish what the number actually compels — in every case above it compels PROCESS, never an outcome, and Korea's experience shows referral can be followed by indefinite inaction. (4) OMBUDSMAN / DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY / HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTION. Underrated and often the only route with a binding individual remedy. Where AI touches personal data, the DPA usually has jurisdiction TODAY under existing data protection law, without waiting for an AI act — and unlike a committee it must respond to a complaint. Find the DPA via the Global Privacy Assembly member list; find the ombudsman via the International Ombudsman Institute; find the national human rights institution via GANHRI. A fifth route worth knowing: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION. Roughly 130 countries have an access-to-information law; an FOI request is often the only way to see inside a closed inter-ministerial AI body. Check whether your country's law is open to foreigners — India's RTI is citizens-only, the EU's and the UK's are not.\n\nSTEP 5 — SANITY CHECKS BEFORE YOU ACT. Confirm the legislature is in session (committees do not meet in recess, and rosters are reconstituted at session start — India reconstitutes standing committees around September, so a chair verified in June may be wrong in October). Confirm the bill is in the chamber you think it is: Brazil's PL 2338 left the Senate in March 2025 and anyone still lobbying senators in 2026 is wasting effort. Confirm whether an AI-specific body has displaced the one you found: Japan's AI Strategy Council was superseded by the statutory AI Strategy Headquarters and most secondary commentary still points at the dead one. And confirm the language reality — if the route is single-language and requires domestic identity verification, as Korea's and to a lesser degree Japan's are, say so plainly rather than presenting a route the person cannot actually walk.", "public_route": "See STEP 4. In priority order: ministry notice-and-comment, committee written evidence, petition with a verified trigger, ombudsman/DPA complaint, FOI request.", "format_rules": "Varies. The discipline is to always ask two questions of any threshold: what number, over what period — and then the question most people skip: what exactly does hitting it COMPEL? In every real-trigger system documented here, the answer is 'a procedural step', never a policy outcome.", "realistic": "This method is reliable for locating the seat and the route. It cannot make a closed system open. The honest headline finding across all four jurisdictions researched: the executive-branch consultation route is consistently more open, more predictable and more consequential than the legislative route, and it is the one to use by default. Legislative committees are more visible but far more gatekept. The second finding: language is the dominant practical barrier, not formal eligibility — Japan, Korea and Brazil all impose no nationality bar on written comments, yet all three are effectively closed to a non-speaker acting alone. Budget for a native-language submission or a local intermediary, or accept that the route is theoretical.", "language_note": "Method is language-neutral. Applying it is not: assume the participation layer of any national system is monolingual in the national language even when the ministry maintains an English site, and budget for translation. English-language government pages are usually the PR layer, not the participation layer — the Kantei English site is a rare exception that is genuinely current.", "note": "This is methodology, not a factual claim about any one body, so 'verified' refers to the method having been derived from and tested against the four jurisdictions researched above rather than asserted abstractly. The specific petition thresholds cited for Korea and Brazil are VERIFIED in their own entries above. 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Backed by an Expert Advisory Panel of the 30 Bletchley countries plus the EU, OECD and UN. Synthesises evidence on general-purpose AI capabilities, risks and technical mitigations; it does not make policy recommendations.", "threat_model": "Comprehensive by design: malicious use (cyber, bio, manipulation), malfunctions/reliability, systemic risks (labour, concentration, environment), and loss of control are all treated. Notably more balanced across near-term and catastrophic risk than its critics assume.", "reality_check": "Prestigious but not open. There is one inbox and an invitation-only review round. A well-evidenced technical finding emailed to enquiries@ has a plausible path to an author; a general policy opinion does not. The higher-yield route is to get the underlying work cited in the literature the authors survey, since the Report is a synthesis of published evidence.", "gov_channel": "Very strong — it is the designated evidence base for the AI summit series and is formally received by ~30 governments plus the EU, OECD and UN.", "routes": { "general-enquiries": { "label": "General enquiries", "scope": "The only published contact address", "note": "Verified by direct fetch of the About page." }, "secretariat-coordinated-review-process": { "label": "Secretariat-coordinated review process", "scope": "Draft review by civil society and industry", "note": "The About page states the UK Secretariat 'coordinates a review process that gathers feedback from civil society groups and industry leaders'. There is NO published open call for evidence and no public submission form — participation is by invitation into the review round." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/about", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "5b0fc1e92e", "research_order": 75, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-international-network-advanced-ai-measurement", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "Multilateral (10 members)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "nist-announcement-page", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/02/international-network-advanced-ai-measurement-evaluation-and-science", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "3d890b31c21b" }, { "id": "uk-aisi-blog-network", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/international-evaluation-best-practice-and-open-questions-in-ai-measurement", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "1bc816ddcac7" } ], "region": "Global", "public_input": "none", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "safety-testing", "international" ], "powers": [ "convene", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:safety-testing": "Intergovernmental network of state AI evaluation bodies", "topics:international": "Intergovernmental network of state AI evaluation bodies", "powers:convene": "Coordination runs through whichever member hosts a convening", "powers:publish": "Publishes joint technical outputs (e.g. Feb 2026 consensus areas on automated evaluations)." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-733a4c60-6e6e-4dbd-8463-549ff8a96841", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "International Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation and Science (NAAIMES) — formerly the International Network of AI Safety Institutes", "remit": "Intergovernmental network of state AI evaluation bodies. Renamed in December 2025 from 'International Network of AI Safety Institutes' — the word 'safety' was dropped in favour of 'measurement, evaluation and science'. Verified membership as of 2026: Australia, Canada, European Union, France, Japan, Kenya, Republic of Korea, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States. NOTE: India, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland and China are NOT members. Publishes joint technical outputs (e.g. Feb 2026 consensus areas on automated evaluations). No treaty basis, no legal personality.", "powers_text": "convene", "reality_check": "The network has NO standalone website, NO secretariat email, and NO public-facing channel that I could verify. Coordination runs through whichever member hosts a convening; the US CAISI convened the founding meeting (Nov 2024) and the UK AISI has published network outputs. A member of the public cannot address the network — only individual member institutes. Treat 'the Network' as a publication brand, not a contactable body.", "notes": "The rename is real and confirmed by NIST and UK AISI primary sources. Any directory still calling it the 'International Network of AI Safety Institutes' is out of date. Do not confuse the US 'CAISI' (Center for AI Standards and Innovation) with the Canadian 'CAISI' (Canadian AI Safety Institute) — the acronym collision is genuine.", "routes": { "nist-announcement-page": { "label": "NIST announcement page (US member, CAISI)", "scope": "publications only", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. No network contact address or submission channel published." }, "uk-aisi-blog-network": { "label": "UK AISI blog on network outputs", "scope": "publications only", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. Confirms the ten members. No network-level contact route." } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/02/international-network-advanced-ai-measurement-evaluation-and-science", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/international-evaluation-best-practice-and-open-questions-in-ai-measurement", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "4c4d2e5f29", "research_order": 30, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-iso-iec-jtc-1-sc-42", "type": "standards", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "International (ISO/IEC); secretariat held by ANSI (United States)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "participate-via-your-national", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.iso.org/committee/6794475.html", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "12bb2e37e39e" }, { "id": "ansi-general-enquiries", "type": "email", "value": "info@ansi.org", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "b9b8ec46506b" }, { "id": "sc-42-committee-manager", "type": "email", "value": "hbenko@ansi.org", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "9a127685861d" }, { "id": "public-enquiry-ballot-comment", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.iso.org/committee/6794475.html", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "d2ed362f7239" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.iso.org/committee/6794475.html", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "8a3dc6a82ef6" } ], "region": "Global", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "standards", "international" ], "powers": [ "set-standards" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:standards": "The lead international AI standardisation committee, established 2017.", "topics:international": "The lead international AI standardisation committee", "powers:set-standards": "44 published standards and ~49 in development" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-acacb224-c7d6-456c-874f-719d321b0604", "roles": [ "standards" ] }, "strings": { "name": "ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 — Artificial Intelligence", "remit": "The lead international AI standardisation committee, established 2017. Five working groups (WG1 foundational standards, WG2 data, WG3 trustworthiness, WG4 use cases and applications, WG5 computational approaches and system characteristics) plus seven joint working groups with other committees. 59 participating and 25 observing member bodies; 44 published standards and ~49 in development — including ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management systems) and 23894 (risk management).", "threat_model": "Trustworthiness as an engineering property: robustness, bias, transparency, risk management, functional safety. Not oriented to catastrophic or loss-of-control risk.", "reality_check": "Not closed, but gated and slow. A determined individual genuinely can get into the room via a mirror committee, and mirror committees are frequently under-subscribed for civil-society voices — the marginal outsider has unusually high influence there. Expect a 1–3 year horizon and unpaid meeting-heavy work. Drafts are copyrighted and not public, which is the real barrier.", "gov_channel": "Very high leverage indirectly — ISO/IEC standards are referenced by regulators worldwide and ISO/IEC 42001 is becoming the de facto compliance artefact.", "routes": { "participate-via-your-national": { "label": "Participate via your NATIONAL standards body's mirror committee — the only route for an individual", "scope": "Anyone in a participating member country", "note": "Concretely: find your country's ISO member (ANSI in the US, BSI in the UK, DIN in Germany, SCC in Canada, BIS in India, SAC in China, Standards Australia), apply to join its SC 42 mirror committee, and you become eligible to be nominated as a national delegate/expert to SC 42 WGs. Fees and eligibility vary by country — some (e.g. SCC Canada) accept individuals free of charge; others require corporate membership." }, "ansi-general-enquiries": { "label": "ANSI (SC 42 secretariat) general enquiries", "scope": "US route / secretariat questions" }, "sc-42-committee-manager": { "label": "SC 42 Committee Manager, Heather Benko (ANSI)", "scope": "Direct secretariat contact", "note": "Named on the ISO committee page." }, "public-enquiry-ballot-comment": { "label": "Public enquiry/ballot comment on draft standards — submitted through your national body", "scope": "Anyone, but comments are channelled and consolidated nationally", "note": "You cannot comment directly to ISO; your national body aggregates and submits its country position." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.iso.org/committee/6794475.html", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "5e2d8db0ad", "research_order": 86, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-itu-ai-good", "type": "multilateral", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "Global (UN specialised agency, Geneva)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "neural-network-community", "type": "membership", "value": "https://neuralnetwork.aiforgood.itu.int", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "039c933918ee" }, { "id": "innovation-factory-startup-pitch", "type": "submission", "value": "https://aiforgood.itu.int/pitch/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "1ee768c9ba26" }, { "id": "engage-partnership-enquiries", "type": "form", "value": "https://aiforgood.itu.int/engage/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "69c14e82d5a9" }, { "id": "speaker-proposals", "type": "form", "value": "https://aiforgood.itu.int/speakers-ai-for-good/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "74db55d55daf" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://aiforgood.itu.int/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "c66a6503ff61" } ], "region": "Global", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "standards", "international" ], "powers": [ "convene" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:standards": "Standards & Policy", "topics:international": "co-convened with Switzerland and 50+ UN agencies", "powers:convene": "AI for Good itself is a convening platform, not a decision venue" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-9ec8542a-cd1c-4103-a885-a2fda1ab525c", "roles": [ "multilateral" ] }, "strings": { "name": "ITU — AI for Good", "remit": "ITU's year-round AI platform, co-convened with Switzerland and 50+ UN agencies, organised around Solutions & Knowledge, Skills & Capacity, and Standards & Policy. Hosts the annual Global Summit in Geneva (which co-located with the inaugural Global Dialogue in July 2026), the Innovation Factory startup pitch programme, and the 'Neural Network' community platform (60k+ members).", "threat_model": "Overwhelmingly opportunity-framed — SDG applications, capacity building, standards. Safety appears as trustworthiness/standards, not as catastrophic risk. It is the least risk-focused body in the multilateral set.", "reality_check": "Genuinely open to join, genuinely low influence per unit of effort. Good for visibility and contacts; poor for escalating a safety concern.", "gov_channel": "Moderate — ITU is a treaty body and runs AI standardisation study groups, but AI for Good itself is a convening platform, not a decision venue. Formal ITU standards work still requires member-state or sector-member status.", "routes": { "neural-network-community": { "label": "Neural Network community (free to join)", "scope": "Anyone", "note": "Lowest-barrier entry point into the UN AI ecosystem." }, "innovation-factory-startup-pitch": { "label": "Innovation Factory startup pitch portal", "scope": "Startups with AI-for-SDG solutions" }, "engage-partnership-enquiries": { "label": "Engage / partnership enquiries", "scope": "Sponsorship, partnership, participation", "note": "No public email address listed." }, "speaker-proposals": { "label": "Speaker proposals", "scope": "Speaking at summits and webinars" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://neuralnetwork.aiforgood.itu.int", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://aiforgood.itu.int/pitch/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://aiforgood.itu.int/engage/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://aiforgood.itu.int/speakers-ai-for-good/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "aba9f64848", "research_order": 77, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-mlcommons-ailuminate-benchmark", "type": "standards", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "International (engineering consortium)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "ai-risk-reliability-working", "type": "membership", "value": "https://mlcommons.org/working-groups/ai-risk-reliability/ai-risk-reliability/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "3abd09ec0853" }, { "id": "get-involved", "type": "membership", "value": "https://mlcommons.org/get-involved/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "288496cff3ad" }, { "id": "github-code", "type": "submission", "value": "https://github.com/mlcommons", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "7777b148100b" }, { "id": "mlcommons-discord", "type": "form", "value": "https://discord.com/invite/rRbEjveNy5", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "b1079723d67d" }, { "id": "public-benchmark-results", "type": "form", "value": "https://ailuminate.mlcommons.org/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "e587fc986cdc" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://mlcommons.org/ailuminate/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "1087969abc7b" } ], "region": "Global", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "flaw", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "safety-testing" ], "powers": [ "test-models", "set-standards", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:safety-testing": "AILuminate is a standardised AI risk assessment benchmark for chat and vision-language models across 12 hazard categories", "powers:test-models": "109 models benchmarked", "powers:set-standards": "AILuminate is a standardised AI risk assessment benchmark", "powers:publish": "Produces public grades per model." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-cfe57732-1168-4736-a73c-c2cc7e8e040b", "roles": [ "standards" ] }, "strings": { "name": "MLCommons — AILuminate benchmark (AI Risk & Reliability working group)", "remit": "AILuminate is a standardised AI risk assessment benchmark for chat and vision-language models across 12 hazard categories, built with industry, academia and civil society; at last check 59,624 test prompts, 477 test images and 109 models benchmarked, with expanding agentic, multimodal and jailbreak/security suites. Produces public grades per model.", "threat_model": "Product-level hazard and reliability: violent crime facilitation, CSAM, hate, self-harm, privacy, IP, defamation, specialised advice. Near-term deployment harms and misuse — NOT loss of control.", "reality_check": "One of the more genuinely participatory technical bodies. If you can demonstrate a hazard category the benchmark misses, the working group is a place where that can actually change an artefact that companies are graded on. Requires technical credibility and sustained attendance.", "gov_channel": "Moderate — AILuminate is cited in policy discussion of evaluation standards and MLCommons engages with NIST and the safety-institute network, but it has no formal mandate.", "routes": { "ai-risk-reliability-working": { "label": "AI Risk & Reliability working group — open to participants", "scope": "Researchers and practitioners; working-group participation is the substantive route", "note": "MLCommons working groups run open calls and mailing lists; this is a genuine build-it-with-us channel." }, "get-involved": { "label": "Get involved", "scope": "Anyone" }, "github-code": { "label": "GitHub — code, taxonomy and prompt-set contributions/issues", "scope": "Anyone" }, "mlcommons-discord": { "label": "MLCommons Discord", "scope": "Anyone" }, "public-benchmark-results": { "label": "Public benchmark results", "scope": "Read-only" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://mlcommons.org/working-groups/ai-risk-reliability/ai-risk-reliability/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://mlcommons.org/get-involved/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://github.com/mlcommons", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://discord.com/invite/rRbEjveNy5", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://ailuminate.mlcommons.org/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "fbeffbadb6", "research_order": 91, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-oecd-ai-policy-observatory", "type": "multilateral", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "OECD members + partners" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "oecd-ai-network-experts", "type": "membership", "value": "https://oecd.ai/en/network-of-experts", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "af9bff38831f" }, { "id": "wonk-blog-expert-commentary", "type": "submission", "value": "https://oecd.ai/en/wonk", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "bd72512fcab8" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://oecd.ai/en/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "c559517b0038" } ], "region": "Other", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "international", "work", "transparency" ], "powers": [ "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:international": "OECD AI Principles are the reference text for the G7", "topics:work": "labour market effects", "topics:transparency": "HAIP transparency reporting", "powers:advise": "OECD work feeds directly into member-state policy" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-06285a29-a313-4af0-8472-35dfb60392ff", "roles": [ "multilateral" ] }, "strings": { "name": "OECD.AI Policy Observatory (OECD AI Policy Observatory)", "remit": "Hub for the OECD AI Principles, national AI policy database, AI Incidents & Hazards Monitor, HAIP transparency reporting, and the GPAI expert community. Underpinned by the Working Party on AI Governance (AIGO) under the Digital Policy Committee.", "threat_model": "Governance-neutral and comprehensive: trustworthy AI, incidents, labour market effects, compute and diffusion. Risk taxonomy is broad rather than catastrophe-focused.", "reality_check": "Closed by design. Everything runs through national delegations and the four chartered stakeholder groups. An individual's realistic move is to join a CSISAC-affiliated organisation rather than approach the OECD directly.", "gov_channel": "Strong — OECD AI Principles are the reference text for the G7, and OECD work feeds directly into member-state policy.", "routes": { "oecd-ai-network-experts": { "label": "OECD.AI Network of Experts — nomination only", "scope": "Members nominated by OECD member states, the European Commission, or one of four recognised stakeholder groups (BIAC business, TUAC labour, CSISAC civil society, ITAC technical)", "note": "CSISAC is the formal civil-society door into OECD digital policy — that is the concrete route for an individual, not a direct application." }, "wonk-blog-expert-commentary": { "label": "Wonk blog — expert commentary", "scope": "Invited/pitched expert posts", "note": "UNVERIFIED whether unsolicited pitches are accepted; no submission form was found." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://oecd.ai/en/network-of-experts", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://oecd.ai/en/wonk", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "b01236b09a", "research_order": 79, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-ohchr-b-tech-project", "type": "multilateral", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "Global (UN, Geneva)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "general-ohchr-contact", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/contact-us", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "1376ff5bb996" }, { "id": "ohchr-business-human-rights", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/business-and-human-rights/ohchr-helpdesk-business-and-human-rights", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "97a2f241b3a8" }, { "id": "b-tech-project-hub", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/b-tech", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "e7bce6b10058" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/business-and-human-rights/b-tech-project", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "beaa569d5d54" } ], "region": "Global", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "discrimination", "privacy", "work" ], "not_topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "publish", "convene" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:discrimination": "Near-term and structural human-rights harms: discrimination, privacy, freedom of expression, labour", "topics:privacy": "Near-term and structural human-rights harms: discrimination, privacy, freedom of expression, labour", "topics:work": "Near-term and structural human-rights harms: discrimination, privacy, freedom of expression, labour", "not_topics:frontier-ai": "If it is frontier misalignment, it will not land.", "powers:publish": "Its generative AI workstream has produced a foundational paper on responsible development/deployment of generative AI", "powers:convene": "Engages states, companies, investors and civil society on human-rights due diligence." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-74e79de7-844e-4027-b160-357d4e8942de", "roles": [ "multilateral" ] }, "strings": { "name": "OHCHR B-Tech Project (UN Human Rights Office)", "remit": "Launched 2019 to apply the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the tech sector. Its generative AI workstream has produced a foundational paper on responsible development/deployment of generative AI, a Taxonomy of Generative AI Human Rights Harms, and headline recommendations (2025). Engages states, companies, investors and civil society on human-rights due diligence.", "threat_model": "Near-term and structural human-rights harms: discrimination, privacy, freedom of expression, labour, and accountability gaps in corporate AI value chains. Not a loss-of-control body.", "reality_check": "Small team, human-rights framing only. If your concern is a documented corporate harm to identifiable people, this is a serious channel. If it is frontier misalignment, it will not land.", "gov_channel": "Real but indirect — feeds Human Rights Council sessions, Special Procedures, and the annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. Separately, HRC Special Rapporteurs run their own open calls for input, which is often the faster UN human-rights route.", "routes": { "general-ohchr-contact": { "label": "General OHCHR contact", "scope": "General correspondence", "note": "No B-Tech-specific inbox is published." }, "ohchr-business-human-rights": { "label": "OHCHR Business and Human Rights Helpdesk", "scope": "Business-and-human-rights queries — the most targeted route", "note": "Better-aimed than the generic form for a corporate-conduct concern." }, "b-tech-project-hub": { "label": "B-Tech project hub (consultations and papers announced here)", "scope": "Periodic multi-stakeholder consultations" }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/contact-us", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/business-and-human-rights/ohchr-helpdesk-business-and-human-rights", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/b-tech", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "legacy_id": "5d95b741aa", "research_order": 78, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "global-unesco-recommendation-ethics-ai-global-ai", "type": "multilateral", "geo": { "country": "global", "label": "Global (193 member states)" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "global-ai-ethics-governance", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.unesco.org/ethics-ai/en", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "3cf9a54c9fb1" }, { "id": "general-unesco-enquiry", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.unesco.org/en/query-list", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "8c4fc042d7e0" }, { "id": "periodic-thematic-consultations", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.unesco.org/en/digital-education/artificial-intelligence/consultation", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "872009c04ddd" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "16ece2ff96de" } ], "region": "Global", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "discrimination", "privacy", "work", "international" ], "not_topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "convene", "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:discrimination": "Near-term harms and human-rights framing: discrimination, gender bias, privacy, environmental sustainability, labour", "topics:privacy": "Near-term harms and human-rights framing: discrimination, gender bias, privacy, environmental sustainability, labour", "topics:work": "Near-term harms and human-rights framing: discrimination, gender bias, privacy, environmental sustainability, labour", "topics:international": "Co-convenor of the UN Global Dialogue Joint Secretariat.", "not_topics:frontier-ai": "Explicitly NOT a loss-of-control or frontier-misuse body", "powers:convene": "a Global Forum on the Ethics of AI", "powers:advise": "the Recommendation is implemented via national RAM exercises with ministries" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-744064f3-4e69-4661-b232-66483a3a69c2", "roles": [ "multilateral" ] }, "strings": { "name": "UNESCO — Recommendation on the Ethics of AI / Global AI Ethics and Governance Observatory", "remit": "Adopted Nov 2021, the first global standard-setting instrument on AI ethics: four core values, ten principles, eleven policy action areas. Implementation tools include the Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM) and Ethical Impact Assessment, a Global Forum on the Ethics of AI, and the Observatory, which maintains a public directory of civil society organisations working on AI ethics. Co-convenor of the UN Global Dialogue Joint Secretariat.", "threat_model": "Near-term harms and human-rights framing: discrimination, gender bias, privacy, environmental sustainability, labour, and the digital divide. Explicitly NOT a loss-of-control or frontier-misuse body — do not route a catastrophic-risk concern here expecting traction.", "reality_check": "Bureaucratic and slow, and the bulk of its engagement runs through National Commissions and member-state ministries rather than direct public contact. The Observatory's CSO directory is the one place an outside organisation can actually get itself onto a UN-hosted map at low cost.", "gov_channel": "Strong for human-rights and ethics framing; the Recommendation is implemented via national RAM exercises with ministries.", "routes": { "global-ai-ethics-governance": { "label": "Global AI Ethics and Governance Observatory — civil society directory (organisations can be listed)", "scope": "Organisational listing and resource contribution", "note": "The Observatory hosts profiles of CSOs (e.g. AI Safety Asia) with their contact details." }, "general-unesco-enquiry": { "label": "General UNESCO enquiry", "scope": "General correspondence" }, "periodic-thematic-consultations": { "label": "Periodic thematic consultations (e.g. education in the age of AI)", "scope": "Time-limited open consultations on specific themes", "note": "Consultations open and close; check the page for a live window." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.unesco.org/ethics-ai/en", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.unesco.org/en/query-list", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.unesco.org/en/digital-education/artificial-intelligence/consultation", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "legacy_id": "af6b381755", "research_order": 76, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "id-ministry-communications-digital-affairs", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "id", "label": "Indonesia" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "komdigi-legal-documentation-portal", "type": "docket", "value": "https://jdih.komdigi.go.id/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "id", "source_id": "271a10a2a0f9" }, { "id": "komdigi-main-site", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.komdigi.go.id/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "id", "source_id": "0af9254d7525" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.komdigi.go.id/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "ee7bdaa0c0b9" } ], "local_name": "Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital", "region": "Asia-Pacific", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "law", "systemic" ], "powers": [ "enforce" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:enforce": "content takedown orders, and the ability to block platforms — which it has used aggressively" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-ab9e73b4-4be9-4e01-8102-f3581df4c13c", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs (Komdigi)", "remit": "STATUS IN FLUX AS OF SEPT 2026. Indonesia has no AI act. Komdigi (renamed from Kominfo in late 2024) issued a non-binding AI Ethics Circular (Circular Letter 9/2023) and as of 2026 had submitted two draft Presidential Regulations (Rancangan Peraturan Presiden / Perpres) on AI to the President, with the Deputy Minister publicly explaining that AI would be regulated by Perpres first as a foundation for later primary AI legislation. Komdigi does hold hard powers over electronic system operators under MR 5/2020 — registration requirements, content takedown orders, and the ability to block platforms — which it has used aggressively.", "powers_text": "compel", "reality_check": "Poor for outsiders. Indonesian AI rulemaking is happening through Presidential Regulations drafted inside the executive, a process with limited public consultation and none in English. Komdigi's real power over foreign platforms (blocking, registration) means foreign companies do engage — but through local counsel and registration compliance, not through any open channel. Bahasa Indonesia only.", "notes": "Two draft Perpres on AI were pending as of 2026; I could not confirm whether either had been signed. Treat Indonesian AI regulation as unsettled.", "routes": { "komdigi-legal-documentation-portal": { "label": "Komdigi legal documentation portal (JDIH)", "scope": "regulatory texts and drafting documents", "note": "UNVERIFIED — the domain appeared in search results hosting an AI regulation study document; not fetched." }, "komdigi-main-site": { "label": "Komdigi main site", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED — not fetched. No contact address confirmed." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://jdih.komdigi.go.id/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.komdigi.go.id/", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "bc545ce70d", "research_order": 59, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "ie-ai-office-ireland", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "ie", "label": "Ireland" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "dete-eu-ai-act", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-enterprise-tourism-and-employment/publications/eu-artificial-intelligence-ai-act/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "861fafdfbf24" }, { "id": "publication-regulation-ai-bill", "type": "docket", "value": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-enterprise-tourism-and-employment/press-releases/publication-of-the-regulation-of-artificial-intelligence-bill-2026/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "cb3f70c8d30c" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-enterprise-tourism-and-employment/publications/eu-artificial-intelligence-ai-act/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "4540a307e2fa" } ], "local_name": "Oifig IS na hÉireann", "region": "European Union", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "law", "systemic" ], "entity_key": "entity-391acaf3-7978-4bf3-a133-d94e72ba678d", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "AI Office of Ireland (proposed)", "remit": "STATUS UNCERTAIN AS OF SEPT 2026 — this body does not yet exist. The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 was published 17 June 2026 by the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and would establish 'Oifig IS na hÉireann (AI Office of Ireland)' as an independent statutory body acting as Ireland's central coordinating authority for AI Act implementation. As of this research date the Bill was awaiting passage through the Oireachtas. Ireland had already designated a distributed set of eight/nine existing sectoral regulators as national competent authorities in 2025.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "Do not list the AI Office of Ireland as an operating body — it is a creature of a Bill that had not passed when I checked. Ireland matters disproportionately because most major US AI firms have their EU establishment there, so Irish authorities will in practice supervise them. Until the Office exists, the route is the Department and the existing sectoral regulators. No AI-specific public contact route is published.", "notes": "Ireland is NOT a member of the international network. Irish Oireachtas committees do accept written submissions on Bills from any party, including foreigners, during pre-legislative scrutiny — that is the realistic input window.", "routes": { "dete-eu-ai-act": { "label": "DETE EU AI Act information page", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED — this URL is published on the Bill's press release, which I fetched. It is the department's signposted information route." }, "publication-regulation-ai-bill": { "label": "Publication of the Regulation of AI Bill 2026 (press release)", "scope": "legislative", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. Contains NO consultation email — I checked specifically." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-enterprise-tourism-and-employment/publications/eu-artificial-intelligence-ai-act/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-enterprise-tourism-and-employment/press-releases/publication-of-the-regulation-of-artificial-intelligence-bill-2026/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "390543a2ba", "research_order": 43, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "ie-committee-public-petitions-ombudsmen", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "ie", "label": "Ireland" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/petitions-and-the-ombudsmen/membership/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "526dca5d0000" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/making-a-submission/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "4a81efc62c0a" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "petition", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Louise O'Reilly, TD (Sinn Féin)", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "powers": [ "handle-complaints" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:handle-complaints": "A special Committee of TDs and Senators, the Committee on Public Petitions, will consider your petition." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-b3633e19-f465-4047-b6b7-0c4381060e73", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen (Houses of the Oireachtas)", "ai_jurisdiction": "No AI remit of its own; it is Ireland's citizen-initiated route into the Oireachtas. An AI-related petition — on enforcement of the EU AI Act in Ireland, on data centres, on algorithmic decision-making by a public body — is considered here and can be referred onward to the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence.", "business": "Rolling petitions caseload plus oversight of the Ombudsman offices.", "public_route": "'You can also petition the Houses of the Oireachtas on matters on which it has the power to act. A special Committee of TDs and Senators, the Committee on Public Petitions, will consider your petition. The Committee will publish your petition and may invite you to speak directly to them.' No signature threshold — an individual may petition.", "format_rules": "Petitions are PUBLISHED by the committee. The petitioner may be invited to address the committee in person. The matter must be one on which the Houses have power to act.", "key_people": "Deputies: Pat Buckley (SF), Peter 'Chap' Cleere (FF), Eoin Hayes (Social Democrats), David Maxwell (FG), Maeve O'Connell (FG), Brendan Smith (FF). Senators: Chris Andrews (SF), Paraic Brady (FG), Joe Flaherty (FF), Aubrey McCarthy (Independent).", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 by direct fetch of the committee's Oireachtas membership page and the Oireachtas 'Making a submission' page, from which the quoted description is taken.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Cathaoirleach (Chair)" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/petitions-and-the-ombudsmen/membership/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/making-a-submission/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "3df62beba3", "research_order": 116, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "ie-government-ireland-minister-state-with-ai", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "ie", "label": "Ireland" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/artificial-intelligence/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "d8e04e510441" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/artificial-intelligence/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "22f989a82136" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Niamh Smyth", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "entity_key": "entity-e44ba495-e4a0-47a1-9977-d6bb71f10ed2", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Government of Ireland — Minister of State with the AI brief, Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment", "ai_jurisdiction": "The Irish ministerial holder engaging the Oireachtas AI committee. Ireland's AI policy sits in the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, which is also the department that leads on EU AI Act implementation and the designation of national competent authorities.", "business": "Appearing before the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence on 23 September 2026 at 16:30.", "public_route": "Raise the matter in writing with the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence ahead of a ministerial session — committees regularly put constituent-raised points to ministers directly — or contact the Minister through a TD.", "format_rules": "No formal rules for ministerial correspondence; not published.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 from the Oireachtas AI committee's own scheduling entry, which names her as 'Minister Niamh Smyth, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment'. I did NOT independently verify the precise title of her delegated AI responsibility on gov.ie, so the exact wording of her AI-specific brief is UNVERIFIED.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/artificial-intelligence/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "58faa1b571", "research_order": 118, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "ie-houses-oireachtas-committee-submission-consultation-system", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "ie", "label": "Ireland" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "27b0ab1ac8a4" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/making-a-submission/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "878f5f120829" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "petition", "record" ], "entity_key": "entity-d83481f0-84cf-4722-902c-88bb0ab25e36", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Houses of the Oireachtas — committee submission and consultation system (the public route)", "ai_jurisdiction": "The mechanism for reaching any Oireachtas committee, including the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the AI-adjacent committees (Enterprise, Tourism and Employment; Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport; Justice, Home Affairs and Migration; Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach).", "business": "Current calls for submissions are indexed on the Oireachtas public consultations page.", "public_route": "Official wording: 'Committees give people the opportunity to input directly into the work of the Oireachtas, usually by sending a written submission. A Committee may hold a public consultation on a specific matter and issue a call to the public to send submissions relating to it... ANYONE WHO WISHES TO RAISE A MATTER WITH A COMMITTEE MAY WRITE OR SEND A SUBMISSION TO THE COMMITTEE AT ANY TIME.' That last sentence is the important one: unlike the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Ireland does not require an open call for evidence before you can write in. Separately: petition the Oireachtas through the Committee on Public Petitions; and there is a formal remedy, 'Utterances having an adverse effect', if a statement made about you in a committee meeting was not addressed.", "format_rules": "Follow the Oireachtas guidance note 'Making Witness Submissions and Oral Presentations to Oireachtas Committees'. Submissions accepted by a committee are typically published on the committee's Documents page. 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Structured around three Sutras (People, Planet, Progress) and seven Chakras (Human Capital, Social Empowerment, Safe AI, Resilience & Innovation, Science, Democratising AI Resources, Economic Growth). Adopted the New Delhi Declaration plus investment commitments; the government reported very large public attendance (~600,000 across associated events). The International AI Safety Report 2026 was published ahead of it.", "threat_model": "Development-and-diffusion first. 'Safe AI' is one of seven chakras — a demotion relative to Bletchley (2023), continuing the trajectory set at Paris. Emphasis on access, inclusion and economic impact over catastrophic risk.", "reality_check": "The summit itself is now past. Civil society access in this series has been consistently side-event access, not negotiating-room access, and the safety agenda has thinned at each iteration. 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"Saurabh Vijay", "verified_on": "2026-06-05" } ], "topics": [ "deepfakes", "discrimination" ], "powers": [ "fund" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:deepfakes": "13 projects approved under the Safe & Trusted AI pillar addressing deepfakes and bias", "topics:discrimination": "13 projects approved under the Safe & Trusted AI pillar addressing deepfakes and bias", "powers:fund": "Runs the compute tenders, GPU allocation, model-development grants" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-0080a0b1-d228-4289-9b51-d0406b129c36", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "IndiaAI Mission (IndiaAI Independent Business Division)", "ai_jurisdiction": "Executing agency for India's national AI programme (approx. INR 10,372 crore). Seven pillars including Compute Capacity, Foundation Models, Datasets (AIKosh), Application Development, Future Skills, Startup Financing, and Safe & Trusted AI. Runs the compute tenders, GPU allocation, model-development grants, and the Safe & Trusted AI research portfolio.", "business": "Structured as an Independent Business Division (IBD) of Digital India Corporation, a Section 8 company under MeitY — not a statutory body, which matters: its decisions are corporate/administrative, not subject to parliamentary rule-making scrutiny. As of July 2026, 13 projects approved under the Safe & Trusted AI pillar addressing deepfakes and bias. Nationwide AI skilling programme (target 1 million youth) launched January 2026.", "public_route": "No formal comment mechanism. Practical routes: (a) respond to its Expressions of Interest and calls for proposals published at indiaai.gov.in — these are open to academia, startups and non-profits and are the only route with a defined process; (b) general contact form/email on indiaai.gov.in; (c) reach it indirectly through a MeitY consultation.", "format_rules": "Calls for proposals impose eligibility thresholds — typically Indian-registered legal entity, sometimes minimum turnover or institutional affiliation. Individuals generally cannot apply.", "realistic": "Not usable as a policy-influence route by an ordinary person. This is a delivery body, not a deliberative one. It consults industry and academia through invited roundtables. An individual's realistic option is to apply to a funding call if eligible, or to raise IndiaAI issues through the MeitY consultation route or the Standing Committee instead.", "language_note": "English.", "note": "CEO appointment VERIFIED via ANI, 5 June 2026. The DIC/IBD corporate structure is VERIFIED from MeitY recruitment advertisements issued under 'India AI Division, Digital India Corporation'. I did not find a published board or governing-council membership list — treat the internal governance above the CEO/COO level as UNVERIFIED.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chief Executive Officer, IndiaAI Mission (IAS 1998, Maharashtra cadre; concurrently CEO, UIDAI). Chief Operating Officer: Sudeep Shrivastava, Joint Secretary, MeitY." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-06-05", "review_by": "2026-09-03", "sources": [ { "url": "https://indiaai.gov.in/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "d25384965d", "research_order": 121, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "in-indiaai-safety-institute", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "in", "label": "India" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "meity-indiaai-safe-trusted", "type": "email", "value": "fellow2.gpai-india@meity.gov.in", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "d7627a4c5875" }, { "id": "call-partnerships", "type": "docket", "value": "https://indiaai.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/docs/sg-call-for-partnerships-indiaai-safety-institute.pdf", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "c6e1c8adbd49" }, { "id": "indiaai-portal", "type": "form", "value": "https://indiaai.gov.in/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "b17605603544" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://indiaai.gov.in/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "675c186c3125" } ], "region": "India", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "powers": [ "fund" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:fund": "contracting research to partner institutions via Calls for Partnerships" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-2dcbcfcb-22df-4670-876b-080c3c38945a", "roles": [ "government" ], "parent_id": "in-indiaai-mission" }, "strings": { "name": "IndiaAI Safety Institute", "remit": "Announced 30 January 2025 under the IndiaAI Mission (an Independent Business Division of MeitY, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology), within the Mission's 'Safe & Trusted AI' pillar. Operates on a hub-and-spoke model contracting research to partner institutions via Calls for Partnerships (2025 rounds, deadline extended to 9 July 2025). No statutory basis, no enforcement power. India has no AI Act; the Nov 2025 India AI Governance Guidelines are non-binding and propose an AI Governance Group (AIGG) and a Technology & Policy Expert Committee (TPEC) whose operational status I could NOT verify as of Sept 2026.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "India is NOT a member of the international network despite having an institute. Its partnership calls are explicitly restricted to Indian entities — this is the clearest 'domestic only' eligibility statement of any body here. MeitY does run public consultations (it consulted on establishing the institute, and on the Governance Guidelines) and those are technically open, but they are oriented to Indian industry and civil society. A foreigner's realistic route is commenting on a live MeitY draft, not contacting the institute.", "notes": "Name appears inconsistently as 'IndiaAI Safety Institute', 'India AI Safety Institute' and 'AI Safety Institute (AISI)' in official IndiaAI communications. Existence is confirmed; operational maturity is uncertain.", "routes": { "meity-indiaai-safe-trusted": { "label": "MeitY / IndiaAI Safe & Trusted AI EoI contact", "scope": "narrow — Safe & Trusted AI expression-of-interest process only", "note": "VERIFIED fetched from indiaai.gov.in. CAUTION: this is a GPAI-fellow mailbox tied to a specific EoI round, not a general AISI contact. Likely stale outside that round." }, "call-partnerships": { "label": "Call for Partnerships, IndiaAI Safety Institute", "scope": "Indian institutions only", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). 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Owns the IndiaAI Mission, the India AI Governance Guidelines (Nov 2025), the IT Act and IT Rules including the 2026 AI-labelling/deepfake amendments, the DPDP Act rules, and the India AI Impact Summit. Any future Indian AI statute will originate here.", "business": "Implementation of the India AI Governance Guidelines (released Nov 2025, foregrounded at the Feb 2026 Summit, 'seven sutras' framework). Operating the AIGEG/TPEC structure constituted 16 April 2026. Draft IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Second Amendment Rules 2026 on AI-generated content labelling — consultation ran 30 March to 29 April 2026 (extended from 14 April); notified thereafter. Reported to be studying a graded, risk-based AI law rather than a single AI Act.", "public_route": "MeitY does not use a single standing portal. Its actual mechanism is: it publishes a draft plus a one-page 'inviting comments' notice as a PDF under meity.gov.in/documents or /ministry/whats-new, and names a consultation-specific email address. Comments go to that address as .docx or .pdf. Some consultations are additionally mirrored on MyGov (mygov.in) as a 'Discussion' or 'Consultation' with a comment box. Worked example: the Draft IT Amendment Rules 2026 consultation took comments at itrules.consultation@meity.gov.in, rule-by-rule, in MS Word or PDF, deadline extended to 29 April 2026.", "format_rules": "None. Any person or organisation may email comments. India's Pre-Legislative Consultation Policy 2014 notionally requires 30 days, but MeitY has repeatedly used shorter windows and civil society (IFF, SFLC.in) has formally objected.", "realistic": "Genuinely usable, and one of the easier routes in this list — a single email with a PDF attached is the whole procedure. Two honest caveats: MeitY frequently states that submissions are 'held in fiduciary capacity' and will not be published, so you cannot see what others said or whether you were read; and windows are often short and announced with little notice. Set an alert on meity.gov.in/whats-new rather than expecting to be notified. Note that meity.gov.in is JavaScript-rendered, so its consultation listing does not load for simple scrapers or link-preview tools.", "language_note": "English (Hindi notionally accepted; in practice all drafts and responses are in English).", "note": "Consultation mechanism and the itrules.consultation@meity.gov.in address VERIFIED from the MeitY notice PDF at https://www.meity.gov.in/static/uploads/2026/04/964ca48ac7d0c92e3bba5d32d9a59fcb.pdf and corroborated by SFLC.in. As of 2026-09-22 I could not confirm an open consultation window; the most recent verified one closed 29 April 2026. The /documents/public-consultation landing URL is given as the standing entry point but renders client-side.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (also Railways and Information & Broadcasting). Minister of State: Jitin Prasada. Secretary, MeitY: S. Krishnan." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.meity.gov.in/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.meity.gov.in/documents/public-consultation", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "89c9d4d8ed", "research_order": 120, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "in-mygov", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "in", "label": "India" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.mygov.in/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "English and Hindi interface; some content in other Indian languages. No foreign-language support.", "source_id": "50e275e405c5" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.mygov.in/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "English and Hindi interface; some content in other Indian languages. No foreign-language support.", "source_id": "16084f531fb1" } ], "local_name": "माईगव", "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "UNVERIFIED", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "entity_key": "entity-a2012bf3-2656-4040-923a-4e0db4ff65fc", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "MyGov (Citizen Engagement Platform)", "ai_jurisdiction": "Cross-government citizen consultation platform under MeitY/Digital India Corporation. Used inconsistently for MeitY drafts; hosts discussions, polls, and 'Share your ideas' consultations, including on AI and digital policy.", "business": "Runs alongside, not instead of, MeitY's email-based consultations. Not every MeitY AI consultation is mirrored here — the 2026 IT Rules AI-labelling consultation ran by email only.", "public_route": "Register a free account (mobile number or email), then comment on an open 'Discuss' or 'Consultation' task. Comments are public and visible to other users, which is the opposite of MeitY's confidential email route.", "format_rules": "None. Free registration. Requires an Indian mobile number for some functions.", "realistic": "Usable and low-friction if a relevant consultation is live, and it is the only Indian route where your submission is publicly visible. But it is not the authoritative channel — for AI policy specifically, the email consultation is where MeitY actually reads submissions. Treat MyGov as supplementary. Do not rely on it as the only place you check for open windows.", "language_note": "English and Hindi interface; some content in other Indian languages. No foreign-language support.", "note": "Platform existence and function VERIFIED; I deliberately did not verify current MyGov leadership and have marked it UNVERIFIED rather than guess. MyGov's role relative to MeitY email consultations is inferred from the observed pattern that the April 2026 IT Rules consultation used email only.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "CEO, MyGov — I did not verify the current officeholder and am not naming one." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.mygov.in/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "6d7c4f75de", "research_order": 124, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "in-standing-committee-communications-information-technology", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "in", "label": "India" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://sansad.in/ls/committee/departmentally-related-standing-committees", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "English and Hindi. Submissions accepted in either. No other languages served.", "source_id": "6fdc6086197f" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://sansad.in/ls/committee/departmentally-related-standing-committees", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "English and Hindi. Submissions accepted in either. No other languages served.", "source_id": "399fd4480e5d" } ], "local_name": "संचार और सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संबंधी स्थायी समिति", "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Nishikant Dubey", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "deepfakes", "privacy" ], "powers": [ "oversee", "publish", "hold-hearings", "set-agenda" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:deepfakes": "deepfakes/AI-generated content", "topics:privacy": "data protection", "powers:oversee": "Oversight of MeitY, Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.", "powers:publish": "Reported in March 2026 on the impact of the emergence of artificial intelligence.", "powers:hold-hearings": "Oral evidence invitations go almost exclusively to industry bodies, ministries and a small set of established think tanks.", "powers:set-agenda": "can self-select AI subjects" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-c8a44b91-1f7e-440b-ab68-4ab0205b1827", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology (Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee No. 18)", "ai_jurisdiction": "Oversight of MeitY, Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Covers AI policy, IndiaAI Mission budgets, IT Rules, deepfakes/AI-generated content, data protection, telecom. It examines Demands for Grants and can self-select AI subjects; it has no power to amend rules, only to report.", "business": "2025-26 committee (31 members: 21 Lok Sabha + 10 Rajya Sabha per current LS practice; PRS lists 28 as 20+8 — the exact count is disputed between sources, see note). Reported in March 2026 on the impact of the emergence of artificial intelligence. Also active on Make in India in electronics (meeting 25 June 2026), fake news/misinformation and telecom. VERIFIED that Dubey chaired as of June 2026 via ANI; committees are normally reconstituted each September, so a 2026-27 reconstitution may have occurred in the days around this date — re-check before citing.", "public_route": "Two routes. (1) When a committee takes up a subject or a Bill it issues a Press Communiqué through PIB and on sansad.in inviting memoranda from 'individuals, organisations, experts and stakeholders', usually 15-21 days, submitted by post or email to the Committee Branch, Lok Sabha Secretariat. (2) Writing directly to the Chairperson or the Committee's Director/Additional Director at any time. There is no standing online submission portal for DRSCs.", "format_rules": "None. No signature or supporter threshold. Acceptance of a memorandum is entirely at the Chairperson's discretion, and there is no obligation to acknowledge or publish it.", "realistic": "Partly usable. An ordinary person can post or email a memorandum and it costs nothing, but there is no tracking, no acknowledgement and no publication of unsolicited submissions. Oral evidence invitations go almost exclusively to industry bodies, ministries and a small set of established think tanks. A non-Indian or an unaffiliated individual is very unlikely to be called. The realistic value is written input that may be cited anonymously in a report.", "language_note": "English and Hindi. Submissions accepted in either. No other languages served.", "note": "Chair verified via ANI reporting (June 2026) and PRS India committee page. The official sansad.in per-committee deep link returns HTTP 500 intermittently; the eParlib composition PDF for 2025-26 is at https://eparlib.sansad.in/bitstream/123456789/3017142/1/18_Communications_and_Information_Technology_25.pdf. Membership counts differ between PRS (28) and Lok Sabha rules (31) — treat as UNVERIFIED on that specific number.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chairperson (BJP, Lok Sabha, Godda constituency)" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://sansad.in/ls/committee/departmentally-related-standing-committees", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "cf43742919", "research_order": 119, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "it-agenzia-l-italia-digitale-agenzia-cybersicurezza", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "it", "label": "Italy" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "agid-artificial-intelligence-page", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.agid.gov.it/en/intervention-areas/artificial-intelligence", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "it, en", "source_id": "58c0648825e1" }, { "id": "acn-market-surveillance-complaints", "type": "complaint", "value": null, "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "it" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.agid.gov.it/en/intervention-areas/artificial-intelligence", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "ef7c65222f9c" } ], "local_name": "Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale; Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale", "region": "European Union", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "powers": [ "enforce", "handle-complaints" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:enforce": "ACN is a genuine enforcement authority", "powers:handle-complaints": "Article 85 gives ANY person the right to lodge a complaint, with no nationality requirement" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-95440979-2bb0-4a0a-b3db-d8dfd360f745", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale (AgID) and Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN) — Italian national AI authorities", "remit": "Law No. 132 of 23 September 2025 ('Disposizioni e deleghe al Governo in materia di intelligenza artificiale') made Italy the first EU member state with a national AI statute layered on the EU AI Act. It designates AgID as the notifying authority (promotion, notification of conformity-assessment bodies) and ACN as the market-surveillance authority (inspection and sanction powers under the AI Act). Implementing decrees on governance, training, biometrics and liability were being adopted through 2026. Banca d'Italia, CONSOB, IVASS and Garante Privacy retain sectoral competence. ACN is a genuine enforcement authority; AgID is largely administrative.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "Italy is an EU member state, so the operative public route for a foreigner is the EU AI Act's own complaint mechanism to the national market-surveillance authority (ACN) — Article 85 gives ANY person the right to lodge a complaint, with no nationality requirement. That right is real and legally binding. The practical barrier is language: ACN and AgID operate in Italian, and I could not verify an English-language complaint form.", "notes": "Italy is NOT a member of the international network. Included because the user asked. Law 132/2025 is significant as the first national AI law inside the EU.", "routes": { "agid-artificial-intelligence-page": { "label": "AgID artificial intelligence page", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). AgID maintains a PEC (certified email) and standard contact pages in Italian; I did not verify specific addresses." }, "acn-market-surveillance-complaints": { "label": "ACN market-surveillance complaints", "scope": "AI Act market surveillance", "note": "UNVERIFIED — I could not confirm a dedicated AI complaint form at ACN as of Sept 2026. Do not publish an address without checking." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.agid.gov.it/en/intervention-areas/artificial-intelligence", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "526b1a8438", "research_order": 40, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "jp-ai-strategy-council", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/ai_senryaku/ai_senryaku.html", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only.", "source_id": "fca924d08857" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/ai_senryaku/ai_senryaku.html", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only.", "source_id": "fc4945852de0" } ], "local_name": "AI戦略会議", "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "UNVERIFIED", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "powers": [ "advise" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:advise": "The non-statutory expert advisory council" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-789d7cc9-2a96-4c29-9c96-fa084a3bd6a7", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "AI Strategy Council", "ai_jurisdiction": "The non-statutory expert advisory council established in 2023 that produced Japan's interim AI policy positions and laid the groundwork for the AI Act. Now largely superseded.", "business": "Largely dormant. The most recent meeting recorded on the Cabinet Office page is the 14th session on 2 June 2025, with the previous one on 4 February 2025. Its function has been absorbed by the statutory AI Strategy Headquarters and its expert panel (専門調査会). Included here specifically so it is not mistaken for the live body — a lot of secondary commentary still points at it.", "public_route": "None. Advisory body, closed membership. Agendas, distributed materials and summary minutes are published as PDFs after each meeting.", "format_rules": "None.", "realistic": "Not usable and, more importantly, no longer the right target. If someone directs you to the AI戦略会議 as Japan's AI control tower, that advice is out of date — go to the 人工知能戦略本部 instead.", "language_note": "Japanese only.", "note": "Meeting history (last recorded session 2 June 2025) VERIFIED from the Cabinet Office page. The chair is deliberately left UNVERIFIED. The supersession by the statutory Headquarters is an inference from the meeting record plus the AI Act's creation of the Headquarters — stated here as an inference, not a fact.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chair — I did not verify the current or final chair and will not name one." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/ai_senryaku/ai_senryaku.html", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "e727ce0874", "research_order": 131, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "jp-artificial-intelligence-strategy-headquarters", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/ai_hq/ai_hq.html", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only for the Headquarters pages and for e-Gov submissions.", "source_id": "b1974f64d89e" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only for the Headquarters pages and for e-Gov submissions.", "source_id": "cd884642a941" } ], "local_name": "人工知能戦略本部", "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "TAKAICHI Sanae (高市早苗)", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "entity_key": "entity-9ed3723e-0798-4795-8230-b35370ca809b", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Artificial Intelligence Strategy Headquarters", "ai_jurisdiction": "The statutory apex AI body, established under the AI Act (人工知能関連技術の研究開発及び活用の推進に関する法律). Drafts and administers the AI Basic Plan (人工知能基本計画), coordinates all ministries on AI, and is the control tower for Japanese AI policy. Because it is statutory rather than advisory, it displaced the earlier non-statutory AI Strategy Council.", "business": "Adopted the first AI Basic Plan (人工知能基本計画, 'Trustworthy AI / Japan's Revival') by Cabinet decision on 23 December 2025. Adopted the AI Basic Plan Phase II (第Ⅱ期, 'Japan AX — stronger, richer') by Cabinet decision on 14 July 2026. A public comment on the Phase II draft (素案) opened 19 June 2026. Secretariat sits in the Cabinet Office.", "public_route": "The Headquarters itself does not take direct submissions. It exposes itself to the public exclusively through the e-Gov public comment system when it puts a draft Basic Plan or implementing order out — that is the single, real handle. Meeting agendas, distributed materials and summary minutes (議事要旨) are published on the Cabinet Office page after each meeting, which makes it unusually transparent to read even though it is closed to input.", "format_rules": "None. Comment periods are, as a matter of the Administrative Procedure Act, in principle 30 days or more from the notice date.", "realistic": "Read-only for most people, but genuinely open at the plan-drafting moments. The 19 June 2026 Phase II draft consultation is the pattern to watch: when a Basic Plan is revised, a real 30-day window opens on e-Gov and anyone may submit. Outside those windows there is nothing to engage with. Note the Cabinet Office explicitly states it weighs comments on substance, not volume, so organised mass-identical submissions are discounted by design.", "language_note": "Japanese only for the Headquarters pages and for e-Gov submissions.", "note": "Structure, leadership formula, statutory basis and both Basic Plan cabinet decision dates VERIFIED from the Cabinet Office pages www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/ai_hq/ai_hq.html and www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/index.html. The Minister of State for AI Strategy as at the 17 September 2026 reshuffle is FURUKAWA Toshiharu (see separate entry); the Cabinet Office HQ page was still naming the previous holder, ONODA Kimi, indicating the page lags the reshuffle.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "本部長 (Director-General) — ex officio as Prime Minister. Deputy Directors: KIHARA Minoru (Chief Cabinet Secretary) and the Minister of State for AI Strategy. Members: all other Ministers of State." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/ai_hq/ai_hq.html", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "ab656e6b3a", "research_order": 129, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "jp-e-gov-public-comment", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/contents/about-public-comment", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only. There is no English interface, no English guidance, and comments are expected in Japanese. Nothing formally bars a non-Japanese speaker or a foreign national from submitting — there is no nationality check — but in practice a submission that officials cannot read will not be processed meaningfully.", "source_id": "1961638da293" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only. There is no English interface, no English guidance, and comments are expected in Japanese. Nothing formally bars a non-Japanese speaker or a foreign national from submitting — there is no nationality check — but in practice a submission that officials cannot read will not be processed meaningfully.", "source_id": "4ce91dea747c" } ], "local_name": "e-Gov パブリックコメント（意見公募手続）", "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Not applicable", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "entity_key": "entity-708e3ac3-a7c2-444b-b081-11a0c5ae4cf6", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "e-Gov Public Comment (Administrative Procedure Act public comment procedure)", "ai_jurisdiction": "The single mandatory consultation channel for all Japanese ministries when making 命令等 (cabinet orders, ministerial ordinances, notices/告示, administrative guidance). Every AI-related ordinance, notice and Basic Plan draft from the Cabinet Office, METI, MIC and the Digital Agency passes through here. Statutory basis: Administrative Procedure Act (行政手続法), Chapter 6. Policy oversight sits with MIC's Administrative Management Bureau.", "business": "Continuously open. Live cases are listed on the portal's 意見募集中案件一覧. AI-relevant recent case: the AI Basic Plan Phase II draft (人工知能基本計画（素案）), comment call announced 19 June 2026.", "public_route": "Find the case on the portal, open it, read the 意見募集要項 (the case-specific comment call sheet — this is the load-bearing document), then use the 意見提出 (submit opinion) form. Required fields vary BY CASE and are controlled by that sheet: if a name/address/phone/email field is not displayed on the form, that information is not required. The only universally mandatory field is the opinion text itself, which has a character limit that will hard-error if exceeded. No account registration is required.", "format_rules": "No signature or supporter threshold. Statutory minimum comment period: in principle 30 days or more from the notice date. The agency must publish a summary of comments received and its response when it finalises the rule.", "realistic": "This is the single most usable formal route in Japan and the one to actually recommend — no account, no fee, no nationality bar, a statutory 30-day floor, and a legal duty on the agency to publish its response to comments. Two honest limits. First, language: it is Japanese-only end to end, so a non-speaker needs a translated submission and cannot navigate the portal unaided; machine translation of the interface works but machine-translating your own submission into Japanese produces text officials visibly discount. Second, the system explicitly weights substance over volume and says identical repeated opinions do not get proportional weight — a coordinated campaign of identical comments is designed not to work here. One well-argued Japanese-language submission beats a thousand copies.", "language_note": "Japanese only. There is no English interface, no English guidance, and comments are expected in Japanese. Nothing formally bars a non-Japanese speaker or a foreign national from submitting — there is no nationality check — but in practice a submission that officials cannot read will not be processed meaningfully.", "note": "System description, the 30-day statutory floor, the no-account/conditional-fields submission mechanics and the substance-over-volume rule are all VERIFIED from the official e-Gov pages public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/contents/about-public-comment and /contents/help/guide/submission.html. The absence of English support is a verified negative — the official pages carry no language options and no guidance for foreign submitters. The e-Gov top page is JavaScript-rendered and will not load for simple fetchers; the /contents/ subpages do.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "System, not a body. Administered across government; procedure overseen by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省行政管理局)." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/contents/about-public-comment", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "7f37c11d88", "research_order": 132, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "jp-house-councillors-committee-cabinet", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/konkokkai/current/list/l0063.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only. The Sangiin site has a thin English section but committee rosters and petition procedure are Japanese-only.", "source_id": "86cb48178e3f" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/konkokkai/current/list/l0063.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only. 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Same jurisdiction: Cabinet Office bills including AI, science and technology policy, digital, personal information protection. Reviews AI legislation after Lower House passage.", "business": "AI Act implementation oversight and the AI Basic Plan Phase II. Committee composition: chair plus 4 理事 (directors) and 18 members, spanning LDP, CDP, DPP, Komeito, Ishin, Sanseitō, JCP and others.", "public_route": "Same as the Lower House: 参考人 (expert witness) appearance by committee invitation only, or a 請願 (petition) which requires a sitting Councillor to introduce it. No open written-evidence process.", "format_rules": "Petition requires a sponsoring member (紹介議員). No numeric threshold.", "realistic": "Not realistically usable by an outsider. Same assessment as the Lower House committee. Its one practical advantage is that the Sangiin roster page is better maintained — it carried an as-of date of 21 September 2026, one day before this research, which is why this chair is verified and the Lower House one is not.", "language_note": "Japanese only. The Sangiin site has a thin English section but committee rosters and petition procedure are Japanese-only.", "note": "Chair VERIFIED from the official Sangiin roster page, as-of date 21 September 2026. Session context: the 221st Diet (special session) shown as running 18 February to 25 July 2026.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "委員長 (Chair), Liberal Democratic Party" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-21", "review_by": "2026-12-20", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/konkokkai/current/list/l0063.htm", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "2cc3971aaf", "research_order": 126, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "jp-house-councillors-committee-economy", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/konkokkai/current/list/l0071.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only.", "source_id": "5a4bb32dcaa3" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/konkokkai/current/list/l0071.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only.", "source_id": "bb5ede6b9f3e" } ], "local_name": "参議院 経済産業委員会", "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "petition" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "HAMAGUCHI Makoto (浜口誠)", "verified_on": "2026-09-11" } ], "powers": [ "oversee" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:oversee": "Upper-house METI oversight" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-c393e87d-f692-4d79-8d95-1b0b13f1bb67", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "House of Councillors Committee on Economy, Trade and Industry", "ai_jurisdiction": "Upper-house METI oversight: AI industrial policy, compute and semiconductor strategy, AI Guidelines for Business.", "business": "METI oversight under AKAZAWA Ryosei; AI Basic Plan Phase II industrial delivery.", "public_route": "参考人 by invitation; 請願 requires a sponsoring Councillor.", "format_rules": "Petition requires a sponsoring member.", "realistic": "Not usable directly by an outsider. Use e-Gov public comment for METI rule-making instead.", "language_note": "Japanese only.", "note": "Chair VERIFIED from the official Sangiin roster page, as-of 令和8年9月11日 = 11 September 2026. Caution: automated readers frequently mis-convert Reiwa 8 to 2024 — Reiwa 8 is 2026.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "委員長 (Chair)" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-11", "review_by": "2026-12-10", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/konkokkai/current/list/l0071.htm", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "ad416d61b9", "research_order": 128, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "jp-house-representatives-committee-cabinet", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_iinkai.nsf/html/iinkai/iin_j0010.htm", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "Japanese only. Proceedings, rosters and all submission procedures are Japanese-language. No English service.", "source_id": "406012d58e52" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_iinkai.nsf/html/iinkai/iin_j0010.htm", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "Japanese only. Proceedings, rosters and all submission procedures are Japanese-language. No English service.", "source_id": "9e51d0d0e381" } ], "local_name": "衆議院 内閣委員会", "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "petition", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "UNVERIFIED — see note", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "privacy" ], "powers": [ "legislate", "oversee", "hold-hearings" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:privacy": "personal information protection", "powers:legislate": "Handles legislation under the Cabinet Office", "powers:oversee": "Implementation oversight of the AI Act", "powers:hold-hearings": "hold 公聴会 (kōchōkai, public hearings) on major bills" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-fb306cce-fef0-4c55-9b06-6058b51db53c", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "House of Representatives Committee on Cabinet", "ai_jurisdiction": "The lead Diet committee for AI. Handles legislation under the Cabinet Office, which owns the AI Act (人工知能関連技術の研究開発及び活用の推進に関する法律), the AI Strategy Headquarters, science and technology policy, digital policy and personal information protection. Japan's AI Act was scrutinised here.", "business": "Implementation oversight of the AI Act (in force since 2025) and the AI Basic Plan Phase II adopted by Cabinet decision on 14 July 2026. The AI Act is a promotion statute with no penalties, so committee scrutiny is about plan implementation and budget rather than enforcement.", "public_route": "There is effectively no direct public-submission route to a Japanese Diet committee. Committees hear 参考人 (sankōnin, expert witnesses) and hold 公聴会 (kōchōkai, public hearings) on major bills, but witnesses are selected by the committee's 理事会 (board of directors) on party nomination. The Diet petition system (請願) requires a sitting Diet member to formally introduce your petition — you cannot file one yourself.", "format_rules": "No signature threshold, but the Diet petition route has a hard procedural gate: a Diet member must sponsor and introduce the petition (紹介議員). Without a sponsoring member it does not exist.", "realistic": "Not realistically usable by an outsider, and not usable at all by a non-Japanese speaker acting alone. Be blunt about this: the Japanese Diet has no equivalent of a select-committee call for written evidence. The practical route into Japanese AI policy is the executive branch's public comment system (e-Gov), not the legislature. If you must reach the committee, the realistic path is through a member's office or an affiliated industry/academic association.", "language_note": "Japanese only. Proceedings, rosters and all submission procedures are Japanese-language. No English service.", "note": "The committee's existence, jurisdiction and membership URL are VERIFIED. The CHAIR IS NOT VERIFIED as of today: the live Shugiin roster page was still showing an as-of date of 24 April 2026 with Yamashita Takashi as chair, which is stale given the 17 September 2026 cabinet. Re-check the roster page directly — it carries a 現在 (as-of) date in the top-right which is the field to read. Do not cite Yamashita as current chair.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "委員長 (Chair). The official roster dated 24 April 2026 lists YAMASHITA Takashi (山下貴司, LDP), but Yamashita became Minister of Justice in the cabinet inaugurated 17 September 2026 and cannot simultaneously chair the committee." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_iinkai.nsf/html/iinkai/iin_j0010.htm", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "0275fcb606", "research_order": 125, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "jp-house-representatives-committee-economy", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_iinkai.nsf/html/iinkai/iin_j0090.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only.", "source_id": "4748e692ccbc" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.meti.go.jp/feedback/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Japanese only.", "source_id": "405f0d3c4ed3" } ], "local_name": "衆議院 経済産業委員会", "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "petition", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "KUDŌ Shōzō (工藤彰三)", "verified_on": "2026-09-17" } ], "powers": [ "oversee" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:oversee": "METI oversight including the AI Industry Strategy Division" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-674214fd-e536-4d9f-b31d-4f886235a5b0", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "House of Representatives Committee on Economy, Trade and Industry", "ai_jurisdiction": "Scrutinises METI, which owns AI industrial policy, the AI Guidelines for Business (jointly with MIC), semiconductor and compute policy, and — new in 2026 — a dedicated AI Industry Strategy Division (AI産業戦略課). This is the committee for the industrial/economic side of AI rather than the governance framework side.", "business": "METI oversight including the AI Industry Strategy Division established in 2026 and METI's role in delivering the AI Basic Plan Phase II. METI minister: AKAZAWA Ryosei.", "public_route": "参考人 by invitation; 請願 requires a sponsoring member. No open call for written evidence. The productive route to METI policy is METI's own public comment channel, which feeds into e-Gov.", "format_rules": "Petition requires a sponsoring Diet member.", "realistic": "Not usable directly. Go to METI's consultation page instead — that is where an outsider's written input can actually land. Note that meti.go.jp/feedback renders poorly for automated fetching; the reliable aggregator is the e-Gov public comment portal.", "language_note": "Japanese only.", "note": "Chair and as-of date (令和8年9月17日 = 17 September 2026) VERIFIED from the official Shugiin roster page. Note the Shugiin URL pattern: iin_j0090.htm is Economy/Trade/Industry and iin_j0110.htm is Environment — the numbering does not follow the display order, so do not guess URLs.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "委員長 (Chair)" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-17", "review_by": "2026-12-16", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_iinkai.nsf/html/iinkai/iin_j0090.htm", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.meti.go.jp/feedback/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "52ba7eb5c6", "research_order": 127, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "jp-information-technology-promotion-agency", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "japan-aisi-mailbox-hosted", "type": "email", "value": "aisi-info@ipa.go.jp", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "ja", "source_id": "6a87a4c8b619" }, { "id": "ipa-general-contact", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.ipa.go.jp/contact.html", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "ja", "source_id": "999a781521bf" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://aisi.go.jp/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "57f06f594c1a" } ], "local_name": "独立行政法人情報処理推進機構", "region": "Japan", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "security", "standards" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:security": "IPA itself handles IT security, standards and skills certification.", "topics:standards": "IPA itself handles IT security, standards and skills certification." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-accc2f66-aa32-43f1-b6f5-3b3d14f46776", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) — Japan AISI secretariat", "remit": "Incorporated administrative agency under METI that hosts the Japan AISI secretariat and operates the AISI working groups (including the business-verification WG). IPA itself handles IT security, standards and skills certification. It has no AI enforcement power; Japan's AI Promotion Act imposes no monetary penalties. Listed separately because IPA, not a ministry, is the entity whose mailbox actually answers for Japan AISI.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "Useful mainly as a structural clarification: Japan AISI has no independent legal personality, so correspondence goes to IPA. Japanese government mailboxes generally do respond to Japanese-language correspondence and are less reliable in English.", "notes": "Established 14 February 2024 by Cabinet decision.", "routes": { "japan-aisi-mailbox-hosted": { "label": "Japan AISI mailbox hosted at IPA", "scope": "AI safety institute matters", "note": "VERIFIED — the @ipa.go.jp domain confirms IPA hosts the secretariat." }, "ipa-general-contact": { "label": "IPA general contact", "scope": "general agency", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). Japanese-language." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ipa.go.jp/contact.html", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://aisi.go.jp/", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "b116fef3cc", "research_order": 68, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "jp-japan-ai-safety-institute", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "japan-aisi-general-inquiries", "type": "email", "value": "aisi-info@ipa.go.jp", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "ja (en tolerated)", "source_id": "0d3f254d387c" }, { "id": "japan-aisi-website", "type": "form", "value": "https://aisi.go.jp/about/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "ja, machine-translated en", "source_id": "cdd791ee86bb" }, { "id": "ipa-parent-agency-contact", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.ipa.go.jp/contact.html", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "ja", "source_id": "4c3502566511" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://aisi.go.jp/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "3f4853728dc5" } ], "local_name": "AIセーフティ・インスティテュート", "region": "Japan", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "safety-testing", "standards", "international" ], "powers": [ "set-standards", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:safety-testing": "Develops AI safety evaluation methods, standards, red-teaming guides and testing environments", "topics:standards": "Develops AI safety evaluation methods, standards, red-teaming guides and testing environments", "topics:international": "coordinates internationally", "powers:set-standards": "Develops AI safety evaluation methods, standards, red-teaming guides and testing environments", "powers:publish": "its outputs (evaluation guides, red-teaming methodology, data-quality guidebook) are published finished" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-649cd912-879f-4af1-9785-497010fecd33", "roles": [ "government" ], "parent_id": "jp-information-technology-promotion-agency" }, "strings": { "name": "Japan AI Safety Institute (Japan AISI / J-AISI)", "remit": "Established 14 Feb 2024 by Cabinet decision (referencing the 2024 Integrated Innovation Strategy). Secretariat hosted at the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), a METI-affiliated incorporated administrative agency. Develops AI safety evaluation methods, standards, red-teaming guides and testing environments; coordinates internationally. Explicitly NON-regulatory — it cannot compel, licence or fine. Japan's AI Promotion Act (Act on Promotion of R&D and Utilization of AI-Related Technologies, in full effect Nov 2025) contains no monetary penalties at all; enforcement is reputational/administrative guidance.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "A real, monitored mailbox at a real agency, which is more than most peers offer. But Japan AISI runs no public consultation or comment docket: its outputs (evaluation guides, red-teaming methodology, data-quality guidebook) are published finished. Realistically a foreigner can write and may get a courteous reply or none; there is no process that obliges anyone to read it.", "notes": "Director Akiko Murakami (non-full-time). Advisors include Arisa Ema and Hiroaki Kitano. Site makes no explicit mention of frontier or catastrophic risk — framing is generic 'AI safety'.", "routes": { "japan-aisi-general-inquiries": { "label": "Japan AISI general inquiries", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED — published on aisi.go.jp homepage and About page, fetched twice. Best single reachable address of any non-Western AISI." }, "japan-aisi-website": { "label": "Japan AISI website (About)", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. English is served via a Google Translate link, not a native English site." }, "ipa-parent-agency-contact": { "label": "IPA parent-agency contact page", "scope": "parent agency", "note": "UNVERIFIED — surfaced in search, not fetched." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://aisi.go.jp/about/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "df63f281c8", "research_order": 31, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "jp-minister-state-artificial-intelligence-strategy-minister", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "jp", "label": "Japan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://japan.kantei.go.jp/105/meibo/daijin/index.html", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "The Kantei site has a full English mirror at japan.kantei.go.jp, which is genuinely useful and one of the few English-language Japanese government resources that is kept current. Consultation itself is Japanese-only.", "source_id": "48a92b55f36c" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "The Kantei site has a full English mirror at japan.kantei.go.jp, which is genuinely useful and one of the few English-language Japanese government resources that is kept current. Consultation itself is Japanese-only.", "source_id": "7f3c6f3c723e" } ], "local_name": "AI戦略担当大臣 / デジタル大臣", "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "FURUKAWA Toshiharu", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "security" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:security": "plus cybersecurity, intellectual property, space and ocean policy" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-dc130756-9be8-4650-9520-592275340035", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Strategy / Minister for Digital Transformation", "ai_jurisdiction": "The named political owner of the AI brief. Concurrently Minister for Digital Transformation and Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, plus cybersecurity, intellectual property, space and ocean policy. Deputy Director of the AI Strategy Headquarters.", "business": "Delivering the AI Basic Plan Phase II (Cabinet decision 14 July 2026). Note the significant 2026 consolidation: AI Strategy, Digital Transformation and Science & Technology Policy are now held by one person, where in the first Takaichi cabinet (Oct 2025) AI Strategy sat with Science & Technology under Onoda and Digital sat separately.", "public_route": "No direct route to the minister. Digital Agency and Cabinet Office rule-making under this portfolio goes out for public comment via e-Gov.", "format_rules": "None.", "realistic": "The minister is not directly reachable, but japan.kantei.go.jp is the correct authoritative English source for who holds the AI brief, and it is updated promptly — it already reflected the 17 September 2026 reshuffle. Use it rather than Wikipedia, which was still showing the October 2025 line-up.", "language_note": "The Kantei site has a full English mirror at japan.kantei.go.jp, which is genuinely useful and one of the few English-language Japanese government resources that is kept current. Consultation itself is Japanese-only.", "note": "VERIFIED from the official Kantei English cabinet list at japan.kantei.go.jp/105/meibo/daijin/index.html, which explicitly attributes 'Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Strategy' to FURUKAWA Toshiharu and dates the cabinet to 17 September 2026. Other ministers verified on the same page: AKAZAWA Ryosei (METI), FUJII Hisayuki (MIC), KIHARA Minoru (Chief Cabinet Secretary). Cross-check note: English Wikipedia's 'First Takaichi cabinet' article gave the superseded October 2025 line-up (Onoda for AI, Hayashi for MIC) — a concrete example of why prior knowledge fails here.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Minister for Digital Transformation / Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Strategy / Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy (plus further portfolios). Appointed in the Takaichi reshuffled cabinet inaugurated 17 September 2026. Predecessor in the AI Strategy brief: ONODA Kimi, who moved to Economic Security." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://japan.kantei.go.jp/105/meibo/daijin/index.html", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "7a787f465b", "research_order": 130, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "ke-ministry-information", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "ke", "label": "Kenya" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "kenya-ai-emerging-technologies", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/kenya-ai-and-et-policy-public-participation-2026", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "b69a5c5ef5f9" }, { "id": "draft-policy-text", "type": "docket", "value": "https://ict.go.ke/sites/default/files/AI%20Policy%20Doc/draft-kenya-ai-and-emerging-technologies-policy-2026.pdf", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "66166fd593c0" }, { "id": "kenya-ai-strategy-2025", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://ict.go.ke/sites/default/files/2025-03/Kenya%20AI%20Strategy%202025%20-%202030.pdf", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "42d4362c14ae" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://ict.go.ke/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "50a38ea712ef" } ], "region": "Africa", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "law", "systemic" ], "entity_key": "entity-6b9248a4-3fc3-4ee1-baa7-68be25af08cf", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy (MICDE) — State Department for ICT and the Digital Economy", "remit": "Owns the Kenya AI Strategy 2025–2030 and the draft Kenya Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy (July 2026). Kenya is the only African member of the international network, though as of Sept 2026 I found NO evidence that a Kenyan AI Safety Institute has actually been stood up — Kenya 'agreed to join' the network with an institute 'in development'. A separate Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 is before Parliament, which if passed would create statutory powers; until then the ministry is a policy body.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "Kenya runs formal 'public participation' — a constitutional requirement under Article 118/201 for legislation and policy, which is genuinely more binding than a discretionary consultation elsewhere. That is a real opportunity. But public participation in Kenya is constitutionally framed around 'the people' and is oriented to Kenyan stakeholders; foreign submissions are not excluded in law but carry no weight. I could not fetch the ministry's site at all (TLS/robots failures), so I cannot confirm the live submission address — flag this as needing manual verification before any directory publishes it.", "notes": "English is an official language of Kenya, so no translation barrier. Kenya's network membership is diplomatically significant (sole African seat) but appears institutionally thin.", "routes": { "kenya-ai-emerging-technologies": { "label": "Kenya AI and Emerging Technologies Policy — public participation 2026", "scope": "draft policy comment", "note": "UNVERIFIED — the page exists per search results but fetch was blocked (TLS/robots failure on ict.go.ke). Submission email and deadline NOT confirmed. Do not publish a contact address for this without re-checking." }, "draft-policy-text": { "label": "Draft policy text (July 2026)", "scope": "draft policy", "note": "UNVERIFIED — fetch blocked by robots/TLS." }, "kenya-ai-strategy-2025": { "label": "Kenya AI Strategy 2025–2030", "scope": "strategy", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/kenya-ai-and-et-policy-public-participation-2026", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://ict.go.ke/sites/default/files/AI%20Policy%20Doc/draft-kenya-ai-and-emerging-technologies-policy-2026.pdf", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://ict.go.ke/sites/default/files/2025-03/Kenya%20AI%20Strategy%202025%20-%202030.pdf", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://ict.go.ke/", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "fdcf5e4128", "research_order": 37, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "kr-ai-safety-institute", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "kr", "label": "Republic of Korea" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "korea-aisi-english-site", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "d877ee74ade1" }, { "id": "korea-aisi-collaboration-page", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/33", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "c41089e1e398" }, { "id": "korean-language-site", "type": "form", "value": "https://aisi.re.kr/kor", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "ko", "source_id": "7e2d95108f36" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "7d6a68c4f0a3" }, { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/23", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Korean and English. Korea AISI maintains a genuine English site — a notable exception in this jurisdiction and the most accessible Korean AI body for a non-Korean speaker.", "source_id": "9e86e9d2e725" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Korean and English. 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This is a genuine regulator: it designates high-impact AI domains (energy, water, healthcare, medical devices, nuclear, biometric criminal analysis, employment and lending decisions, transport, government functions, student assessment), imposes transparency/labelling, lifecycle risk-management and human-oversight duties, and can levy administrative fines up to KRW 30 million (~USD 21,000). It also sets compute thresholds by Presidential Decree triggering additional safety obligations — the closest thing to a frontier-model trigger outside the EU.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "The compute-threshold provision means a foreign frontier lab can fall inside Korean law, which in turn means foreign parties genuinely have standing to raise issues — unusually for Asia. But the compliance route runs through a mandated Korean domestic representative and Korean-language administrative process. I could not verify a public-facing complaint form in English; MSIT's AI supervision channels appear to be Korean-only.", "notes": "The fine ceiling (~USD 21k) is trivially small relative to EU AI Act penalties — treat this as a disclosure-and-registration regime with teeth mainly through market access, not through fines.", "routes": { "extraterritorial-reach-domestic-representative": { "label": "Extraterritorial reach / domestic representative duty", "scope": "regulatory", "note": "VERIFIED that the Act binds foreign providers above user/revenue thresholds, who must appoint a Korean domestic representative — this is the practical hook for foreigners. The MSIT complaint/reporting portal URL itself is UNVERIFIED; I did not fetch a working MSIT AI complaint form." }, "statutory-text": { "label": "Statutory text (English translation, CSET)", "scope": "reference", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). 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Powers include: investigating suspected violations and conducting on-site inspections (Art. 40), issuing corrective orders and service suspension orders, confirming on request whether a system is 'high-impact AI', and drafting the Presidential Decree and notices. Also owns national AI R&D, compute and the AI Safety Institute.", "business": "Implementing the AI Framework Act, in force 22 January 2026. Released the draft regulatory package for public comment on 8 September 2025: Enforcement Decree, Safety Assurance Notice (using a 10^26 FLOP training-compute threshold plus risk criteria), Business Responsibilities Notice for high-impact AI operators, AI Safety Guidelines, and the High-Impact AI Determination Guideline. MSIT has indicated a one-year grace period before administrative fines are imposed — i.e. to roughly January 2027. The minister's elevation to Deputy Prime Minister rank is itself significant: AI policy now sits at DPM level.", "public_route": "Ministry rule-making goes through 입법예고 / 행정예고 (legislative and administrative pre-announcement) posted on the Government Legislation Centre's citizen participation portal, 국민참여입법센터. Anyone may submit an opinion online against a specific posted draft. MSIT also runs 공청회 (public hearings) and 간담회 (roundtables) on major AI notices, generally invitation-based.", "format_rules": "No threshold. Statutory pre-announcement periods: normally 40 days for 입법예고 of decrees, 20 days for 행정예고 of notices — shorter in urgent cases, which MSIT has used.", "realistic": "Formally open to anyone including foreign companies and individuals — Korea does not restrict pre-announcement comments by nationality, and international law firms routinely file on behalf of clients. But it is Korean-language end to end and the portal's submission function generally expects Korean identity verification. The honest assessment: usable by a Korean speaker or through Korean counsel; not usable unaided by a non-speaker. The 10^26 FLOP threshold and the high-impact criteria were both meaningfully shaped by comments in the 2025 window, so this route does have demonstrated influence.", "language_note": "Korean only. 국민참여입법센터 has no English interface and drafts are published only in Korean.", "note": "Minister VERIFIED same-day (22 September 2026) from Korean press coverage of him speaking as 부총리 겸 과학기술정보통신부 장관. Act effective date (22 Jan 2026), the September 2025 regulatory package contents, the 10^26 FLOP threshold and the one-year fine grace period VERIFIED from Baker Botts and Cooley analyses. I could not verify whether the enforcement decree has since been finalised in its consulted form — treat the final text as UNVERIFIED.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT (부총리 겸 과학기술정보통신부 장관)" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.msit.go.kr/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://opinion.lawmaking.go.kr/gcom/ogLmPp", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "6759c56438", "research_order": 134, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "kr-national-ai-committee", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "kr", "label": "South Korea" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.msit.go.kr/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "Korean only.", "source_id": "caf80775cc84" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://opinion.lawmaking.go.kr/gcom/ogLmPp", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "Korean only.", "source_id": "b7402ea5b922" } ], "local_name": "국가인공지능위원회 (National AI Strategy Committee / 국가인공지능전략위원회 — naming UNVERIFIED, see note)", "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "UNVERIFIED", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "powers": [ "make-rules" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:make-rules": "Article 34 empowers it to impose additional safety and reliability requirements on high-impact AI deployers beyond the Act's baseline" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-7ca95f19-eaf7-4b35-9277-e3b94d219e2c", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "National AI Committee", "ai_jurisdiction": "Presidentially-chaired apex AI body referenced in the AI Framework Act. Article 34 empowers it to impose additional safety and reliability requirements on high-impact AI deployers beyond the Act's baseline — a genuinely substantive power, not merely advisory. Functions as the national AI control tower above MSIT.", "business": "Operative under the AI Framework Act since 22 January 2026. Its Article 34 power to add requirements on high-impact AI is the provision to watch, because it lets Korea tighten obligations without amending the statute.", "public_route": "No direct public submission route. Indirect only: comment on MSIT drafts via 국민참여입법센터, or reach the committee's agenda through the National Assembly's 과방위.", "format_rules": "None applicable.", "realistic": "Not usable directly. A presidentially-chaired committee with closed membership. Its importance to an outside observer is analytical rather than participatory: because Article 34 lets it add binding requirements administratively, watching its output matters more than trying to address it.", "language_note": "Korean only.", "note": "MARKED UNVERIFIED ON NAME AND MEMBERSHIP. The Act's creation of a presidentially-chaired national AI committee and its Article 34 power are VERIFIED from FPF and Cooley analyses of the Act, which use the English rendering 'National AI Committee'. Separately, Korean-language sources use 국가인공지능전략위원회 ('National AI Strategy Committee') for a body launched under the Lee administration. I could not establish within this research whether these are the same body, a renaming, or two distinct structures. Resolve this before citing — do not treat the Korean and English names above as confirmed equivalents, and do not name a vice-chair.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chaired ex officio by the President of the Republic of Korea (currently Lee Jae-myung). The vice-chair and the private-sector membership were not verified and are not named here." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.msit.go.kr/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://opinion.lawmaking.go.kr/gcom/ogLmPp", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "070d364c4a", "research_order": 135, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "kr-national-assembly-national-petition-system", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "kr", "label": "South Korea" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://petitions.assembly.go.kr/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Korean only. No English interface. Identity verification is built on Korean domestic authentication infrastructure.", "source_id": "46d555d6e0a4" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://petitions.assembly.go.kr/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Korean only. No English interface. Identity verification is built on Korean domestic authentication infrastructure.", "source_id": "27e3302060e2" } ], "local_name": "국민동의청원 (국회전자청원)", "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "petition" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Not applicable", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "entity_key": "entity-0b415b50-9bc4-4802-8b26-7f26e699a4ae", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "National Assembly National Petition System (electronic petition with public assent)", "ai_jurisdiction": "Not AI-specific, but AI petitions are routed to the 과학기술정보방송통신위원회. This is the one route in this entire research with a genuine, automatic legislative trigger, which is why it deserves precise treatment.", "business": "Continuously open. Any petition reaching threshold is referred to the subject-matter standing committee.", "public_route": "Precise mechanism, in three stages. (1) REGISTRATION: an identity-verified citizen drafts a petition. (2) PUBLICITY GATE: the petition must gather 100 supporters within a set window; the Assembly then conducts a compliance/legality review within 7 days, and if it passes, the petition becomes publicly listed. (3) ASSENT: 50,000 signatures within 30 days of public listing. On reaching 50,000 the petition is 성립 (established) and is AUTOMATICALLY REFERRED to the relevant standing committee, which is then obliged to take it up as a formal agenda item under its petition-review procedure. The threshold was lowered from 100,000 to 50,000 in December 2021. Both petitioning and signing require real-name authentication (본인인증), which eliminates duplicate-account inflation — a deliberate design difference from the former Blue House petition system.", "format_rules": "100 supporters to pass the publicity gate; then 50,000 verified signatures within 30 days to be formally established and referred to committee. Real-name authentication required to create or to sign.", "realistic": "The trigger is real and this is the most powerful citizen route in any of the four jurisdictions covered — 50,000 verified signatures compel committee referral, which no other system here does. But be honest about two things. First, referral is not action: Korean press and civic groups have documented petitions that cleared 50,000 and were then left without a single 청원심사소위 review session, sometimes indefinitely, with the criticism '5만명 동의 받으면 뭐하나' ('what good is 50,000 signatures'). The trigger compels referral, not consideration, and certainly not legislation. Second, the real-name authentication gate means it is a Korean-citizens-and-residents system in practice; a non-Korean-speaker cannot use it and a non-resident generally cannot authenticate. Within those limits, an ordinary Korean citizen genuinely can use it, and 50,000 in 30 days is achievable for a motivated constituency.", "language_note": "Korean only. No English interface. Identity verification is built on Korean domestic authentication infrastructure.", "note": "The two-stage threshold (100 then 50,000/30 days), the December 2021 reduction from 100,000, the automatic committee referral and the real-name authentication requirement are VERIFIED from Korean-language sources including the National Assembly's own guidance page (assembly.go.kr menuNo=600249, which blocks automated fetching via robots.txt but is publicly readable). The portal URL is VERIFIED as the National Assembly e-petition site (국회전자청원). The post-referral inaction problem is VERIFIED from Korean press criticism (Newstomato, Danbi News).", "seat_notes": { "chair": "System operated by the National Assembly Secretariat." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://petitions.assembly.go.kr/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "cac707fa49", "research_order": 137, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "kr-national-assembly-science", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "kr", "label": "South Korea" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://science.na.go.kr/science/guide/info0201.do", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Korean only. The committee site (science.na.go.kr) and the bill pre-announcement system are Korean-language. The National Assembly has an English site but it does not carry participation functions.", "source_id": "0e719f8046d3" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://pal.assembly.go.kr/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "Korean only. The committee site (science.na.go.kr) and the bill pre-announcement system are Korean-language. The National Assembly has an English site but it does not carry participation functions.", "source_id": "4cf914597814" } ], "local_name": "국회 과학기술정보방송통신위원회 (과방위)", "level": "national", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "petition", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "SONG Gi-heon (송기헌)", "verified_on": "2026-06-30" } ], "powers": [ "legislate", "oversee", "hold-hearings" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:legislate": "It produced and passed the AI Framework Act", "powers:oversee": "Oversees the Ministry of Science and ICT", "powers:hold-hearings": "공청회 (public hearings) with invited witnesses" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-628dc098-15f5-4434-a562-8c7cf8588916", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "National Assembly Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee", "ai_jurisdiction": "The lead standing committee for AI. Oversees the Ministry of Science and ICT (과학기술정보통신부), the Korea Communications Commission (방송통신위원회) and the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (원자력안전위원회). It produced and passed the AI Framework Act (consolidating 19 separate bills) and handles all amendments to it, plus semiconductors, R&D budget and broadcasting.", "business": "Song took the chair on 30 June 2026, naming AI, semiconductors and broadcasting fairness as his stated priorities. Oversight of AI Framework Act implementation since its 22 January 2026 entry into force, and of MSIT's enforcement decree and notices. Note the political context: the People Power Party members reportedly submitted en-bloc resignation letters around the handover, so committee composition may be unstable.", "public_route": "Two routes. (1) 입법예고 (legislative pre-announcement) on National Assembly bills — bills referred to committee are posted for public comment on the Assembly's bill information system, typically 10 days, and anyone may submit written opinions online. (2) 공청회 (public hearings) with invited witnesses, by committee selection. The separate 국민동의청원 petition route (below) also lands bills in this committee.", "format_rules": "No threshold for a written 입법예고 opinion. Requires the standard Korean identity verification for the Assembly's online systems.", "realistic": "The 입법예고 route is formally open and genuinely used, but it has two practical gates that exclude most outsiders: everything is in Korean, and the Assembly's online systems generally require Korean identity verification (본인인증) which in practice needs a Korean mobile number or a joint certificate — foreign residents with an ARC can often do this, foreign non-residents usually cannot. The 10-day window is also short. For a non-Korean-speaker this is effectively closed without a Korean intermediary.", "language_note": "Korean only. The committee site (science.na.go.kr) and the bill pre-announcement system are Korean-language. The National Assembly has an English site but it does not carry participation functions.", "note": "Chair and date VERIFIED via Korean press reporting of the 30 June 2026 Democratic Party decision and vote (Song selected over Lee Eon-ju). Jurisdiction over MSIT/KCC/NSSC VERIFIED from Korean Wikipedia. The official committee site science.na.go.kr blocks automated access via robots.txt, so the member list was not directly retrieved — individual member names are UNVERIFIED. The site is served on port 444 in some links (science.na.go.kr:444); the standard URL above should resolve for a human browser.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "위원장 (Chair), Democratic Party of Korea, three-term member. Elected for the second half of the 22nd National Assembly." }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-06-30", "review_by": "2026-09-28", "sources": [ { "url": "https://science.na.go.kr/science/guide/info0201.do", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://pal.assembly.go.kr/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "be44854da4", "research_order": 133, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "mx-agencia-transformacion-digital-y-telecomunicaciones", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "mx", "label": "Mexico" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "atdt-agency-page", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.gob.mx/atdt/sobre-la-agencia", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "es", "source_id": "0672f1257420" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.gob.mx/atdt", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "ba915c6d95a2" } ], "local_name": "Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones", "region": "Latin America", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "law" ], "entity_key": "entity-4f5554c5-10c2-4306-9729-fa9c88bddf73", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones (ATDT)", "remit": "STATUS AS OF SEPT 2026: NO GENERAL AI LAW. The ATDT, created under the Sheinbaum administration, is the federal digital-transformation and telecommunications agency and the likely institutional home for AI coordination. Multiple general AI bills (iniciativas de Ley General de IA) were in legislative process without passage; regulation has instead advanced sector by sector. Mexico's prior AI-relevant oversight body, INAI, was abolished in 2025 as part of the autonomous-bodies reform, with its functions absorbed into the executive — a significant reduction in independent oversight capacity.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "Weak and unsettled. Mexico has no AI law, no AI safety body, and recently dismantled the independent transparency/data authority that would have been the natural AI-oversight anchor. I could not fetch the agency site. Spanish only. Any directory entry should be explicitly provisional.", "notes": "The abolition of INAI in 2025 is the key structural fact and should be noted rather than listing INAI as a live AI contact — a mistake in several existing directories.", "routes": { "atdt-agency-page": { "label": "ATDT agency page", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED — URL from search results; fetch returned HTTP 403. No contact address confirmed." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gob.mx/atdt/sobre-la-agencia", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.gob.mx/atdt", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "c2834bd4dc", "research_order": 65, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "ng-national-information-technology-development-agency-federal", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "ng", "label": "Nigeria" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "national-ai-strategy-page", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://fmcide.gov.ng/initiative/nais/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "b0a1e3dbbeaf" }, { "id": "national-centre-ai-robotics", "type": "form", "value": "https://ncair.nitda.gov.ng/", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "8f5295b7c336" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://fmcide.gov.ng/initiative/nais/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "f0bd6034b923" } ], "region": "Africa", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "harm", "law", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "standards" ], "powers": [ "set-standards", "enforce" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:standards": "NITDA is a statutory IT regulator with real powers (registration, standards, sanctions under the NITDA Act)", "powers:set-standards": "NITDA is a statutory IT regulator with real powers (registration, standards, sanctions under the NITDA Act)", "powers:enforce": "NITDA has genuine enforcement powers, unlike most bodies in this list" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-a35edbb5-78c4-4e00-a9b3-edcb5e39c8e9", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy", "remit": "NITDA is a statutory IT regulator with real powers (registration, standards, sanctions under the NITDA Act) and hosts the National Centre for AI and Robotics (NCAIR). The Federal Ministry owns the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (NAIS), which was itself produced through an unusually open process — a crowdsourced drafting workshop involving Nigerian researchers in the diaspora. A National AI Bill was reported as moving toward approval in 2026, which would create statutory AI powers. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission separately regulates AI's personal-data dimension with fining power.", "powers_text": "compel", "reality_check": "Nigeria's NAIS drafting explicitly drew on Nigerian researchers abroad, which is genuine openness to non-resident input — though to diaspora, not to foreigners generally. Everything is in English, which removes the main barrier. But I verified no contact address, and the AI Bill's status was unconfirmed. Nigeria's AI governance is developmental in focus with no frontier-risk dimension.", "notes": "Nigeria is not a network member. NITDA has genuine enforcement powers, unlike most bodies in this list, but has not to my knowledge exercised them on AI safety grounds.", "routes": { "national-ai-strategy-page": { "label": "National AI Strategy page, Federal Ministry", "scope": "strategy", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). Not fetched." }, "national-centre-ai-robotics": { "label": "National Centre for AI and Robotics (NCAIR)", "scope": "research centre", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://fmcide.gov.ng/initiative/nais/", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://ncair.nitda.gov.ng/", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "7121eb4ca5", "research_order": 60, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "nl-department-coordination-algorithmic-oversight", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "nl", "label": "Netherlands" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "dca-mailbox", "type": "email", "value": "dca@autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "nl, en", "source_id": "26487ce9f620" }, { "id": "ap-algorithms-ai-oversight", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/themes/algorithms-ai/coordination-of-algorithmic-and-ai-supervision", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "5dfd391d0519" }, { "id": "ap-general-complaints", "type": "complaint", "value": null, "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "nl, en" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/themes/algorithms-ai/coordination-of-algorithmic-and-ai-supervision", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "adfb59f27abf" } ], "local_name": "Directie Coördinatie Algoritmes (DCA), Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens", "region": "European Union", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm" ], "powers": [ "publish", "convene" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:publish": "it issues a recurring AI & Algorithmic Risks Report Netherlands", "powers:convene": "coordinate algorithmic and AI oversight across Dutch regulators" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-6e16dd0e-7872-4dcb-917a-2effa5b437b7", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Department for the Coordination of Algorithmic Oversight (DCA), Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens", "remit": "Unit inside the Dutch DPA (AP) set up in 2023 to coordinate algorithmic and AI oversight across Dutch regulators, identify and publish high-level algorithmic and AI risks (it issues a recurring AI & Algorithmic Risks Report Netherlands), and prepare AI Act supervision. Under the Dutch AI Act designation settled in 2026, the AP and the RDI (Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur) take the key supervisory roles — AP for prohibited practices and fundamental-rights-relevant systems, RDI as overall market-surveillance coordinator. AP itself has full GDPR fining power; the DCA as a unit is coordinating/analytical.", "powers_text": "investigate", "reality_check": "Strong. A named, published mailbox that explicitly invites feedback from 'organisations and other parties', on a fully English-language regulator site, at a body with real GDPR enforcement muscle. The DCA also publishes recurring risk reports that cite external input. This is one of the few entries where a foreigner writing in English has a plausible chance of being read.", "notes": "Netherlands is NOT a member of the international network. The RDI (Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur) is the co-designated authority; I did not verify RDI contact details and have not listed a URL for it.", "routes": { "dca-mailbox": { "label": "DCA mailbox", "scope": "algorithmic oversight coordination", "note": "VERIFIED — published on the AP's English DCA page, which renders it with an anti-spam insertion ('dca@remove-this-text.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl'). The operative address is as given. Page states the DCA 'welcomes feedback from organisations and other parties'." }, "ap-algorithms-ai-oversight": { "label": "AP algorithms & AI oversight coordination hub (English)", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. Full English-language site." }, "ap-general-complaints": { "label": "AP general complaints (GDPR)", "scope": "data protection", "note": "UNVERIFIED — the AP operates a complaints route but I did not fetch its URL. Note that GDPR complaints require a nexus to the Netherlands/EU." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/themes/algorithms-ai/coordination-of-algorithmic-and-ai-supervision", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "9d5cda3339", "research_order": 42, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "nl-rijksinspectie-digitale-infrastructuur", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "nl", "label": "Netherlands" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "rdi-ai-act-complaints", "type": "complaint", "value": null, "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "nl, en" } ], "local_name": "Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur", "region": "European Union", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm" ], "powers": [ "investigate", "compel", "enforce", "handle-complaints" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:investigate": "it will hold investigative powers", "powers:compel": "the ability to require documentation and model access", "powers:enforce": "to order corrective measures and withdrawal of non-compliant systems", "powers:handle-complaints": "any person may lodge a complaint with a market-surveillance authority" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-7ae96492-4e65-4c6c-a076-a69b62ed91d0", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur (RDI)", "remit": "Designated in 2026 as the Netherlands' coordinating market-surveillance authority for the EU AI Act, working alongside the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. As an AI Act market-surveillance authority it will hold investigative powers, the ability to require documentation and model access, and to order corrective measures and withdrawal of non-compliant systems, with penalty powers flowing from the national implementing law.", "powers_text": "investigate", "reality_check": "Under EU AI Act Article 85, any person may lodge a complaint with a market-surveillance authority — no nationality or residency requirement. That right applies here and is the operative mechanism for foreigners in any EU state. But the Dutch designation was only settled during 2026 and I could verify no working AI complaint route at RDI. Treat the legal right as real and the administrative channel as unconfirmed.", "notes": "Included because the Dutch supervision model is split and a directory listing only the AP would be incomplete.", "routes": { "rdi-ai-act-complaints": { "label": "RDI AI Act complaints", "scope": "AI Act market surveillance", "note": "UNVERIFIED — I did NOT fetch or confirm any RDI URL or contact address. Listed for completeness of the Dutch designation only. Verify before publishing anything." } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "580506feca", "research_order": 67, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json", "unsourced": "No URL was found for this entity during research (input/data/institutions.json). It needs a source before it can be relied on." } }, { "id": "nz-economic-development", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "nz", "label": "New Zealand" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/economic-development-science-and-innovation/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "22aaf106bee6" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/how-to-make-a-submission/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "f17f8afb7fca" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "petition", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Dr Parmjeet Parmar, MP (ACT Party, List)", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "consumer-protection", "copyright" ], "powers": [ "hold-hearings" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:consumer-protection": "consumer protection and trading standards", "topics:copyright": "AI-and-copyright inside 'intellectual property'", "powers:hold-hearings": "Make a submission when the committee calls for them on a bill or inquiry" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-d9c892e0-4647-40fc-9fc8-7e0c7a155a5b", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee (54th Parliament)", "ai_jurisdiction": "The New Zealand select committee whose subject area covers AI. Its stated remit: 'business development, tourism, Crown minerals, commerce, consumer protection and trading standards, research, science, innovation, intellectual property, broadcasting, communications, and information technology.' AI sits inside 'research, science, innovation' and 'information technology', and AI-and-copyright inside 'intellectual property'. This is New Zealand's default destination for an AI bill, petition or briefing.", "business": "Bills and items referred by the House plus briefings and petitions. No AI-titled inquiry was listed as open for submissions on 22 Sep 2026.", "public_route": "Two routes. (1) Make a submission when the committee calls for them on a bill or inquiry — the live list of items open for submissions is on the select committees home page. (2) Petition the House: a petition can be lodged by any person, goes to the Petitions Committee, and is then routinely referred to the relevant subject committee such as this one. Committee secretariat: edsi@parliament.govt.nz.", "format_rules": "No word limit. You may write in English or in Māori. Submissions can be released by the committee at any time, which makes them public on the Parliament website — this can take a few months. You may ask to make an oral submission in person, by phone or by video conference; remote appearance is explicitly offered to people outside Wellington and to disabled submitters. If the meeting is livestreamed your submission will appear publicly. Advisers read and analyse all submissions and summarise them for the committee in a departmental report, which is also published.", "key_people": "8 members in total; the full list is on the committee's members page.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 by direct fetch of the committee's own page on parliament.nz, which names the chairperson and states the subject remit verbatim.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chairperson" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/economic-development-science-and-innovation/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/how-to-make-a-submission/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "cbec976991", "research_order": 111, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "nz-education-workforce-committee", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "nz", "label": "New Zealand" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/education-and-workforce/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "39014a3ea8ea" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/how-to-make-a-submission/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "66c77257f4aa" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "petition", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Katie Nimon, MP (National Party, Napier)", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "work" ], "powers": [ "hold-hearings", "oversee", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:work": "This is where AI's labour-market effects land in New Zealand", "powers:hold-hearings": "oral submissions available including remotely", "powers:oversee": "Bills, estimates and annual reviews referred by the House", "powers:publish": "It has produced MPs' reporting on AI and business returns." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-4fc87021-0101-44c6-bbd6-2902478e31fa", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Education and Workforce Committee (54th Parliament)", "ai_jurisdiction": "Remit: 'education, training, employment, immigration, industrial relations, health and safety, and accident compensation.' This is where AI's labour-market effects land in New Zealand — automation and job displacement, AI in workplaces and workplace surveillance, and AI in education and training. It has produced MPs' reporting on AI and business returns.", "business": "Bills, estimates and annual reviews referred by the House, plus briefings. Secretariat: ew@parliament.govt.nz.", "public_route": "Submission when a call is open, or a petition referred to this committee.", "format_rules": "Same New Zealand rules: no word limit, English or Māori, published by the committee, oral submissions available including remotely.", "key_people": "9 members in total.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 by direct fetch of the committee's own page on parliament.nz.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chairperson" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/education-and-workforce/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/how-to-make-a-submission/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "1f9cd57032", "research_order": 112, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "nz-new-zealand-house-representatives-select-committee", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "nz", "label": "New Zealand" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "aa4815193e98" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/how-to-make-a-submission/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "464507f10690" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "powers": [ "hold-hearings", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:hold-hearings": "committees may hear submitters 'face to face, by phone, or by video conference'", "powers:publish": "both that report and the committee's report to the House are published" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-8aa4c904-abab-4f52-8b0c-fceb862cc9e9", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "New Zealand House of Representatives — select committee submission system (the public route)", "ai_jurisdiction": "The mechanism for reaching any New Zealand select committee, including on any future AI bill.", "business": "Items open for submissions as at 22 Sep 2026: Building Amendment Bill (Transport and Infrastructure); Local Government (Rates Capping) Amendment Bill (Finance and Expenditure); three References to Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi amendment bills (Justice); Taxation (Annual Rates for 2026-27, FBT Simplification, Foreign Investment Funds, and Remedial Measures) Bill (Finance and Expenditure). None is AI-related.", "public_route": "Check the 'open for submissions' list, then submit through the form on that item's page. Official description: 'A submission is your chance to present your opinions, observations, and recommendations on a matter before a select committee. Submissions are written, but you may also ask to talk to the committee in person' — and committees may hear submitters 'face to face, by phone, or by video conference'. Anyone can submit. General enquiries: Select.Committees@parliament.govt.nz.", "format_rules": "No word limit stated. English or Māori. 'Once you've made your submission, it can be released by the committee at any time, which means making it available to the public via the Parliament website. It can take a few months for submissions to be made available online.' A team of advisers reads and analyses all submissions and reports the results to the committee in a departmental report; both that report and the committee's report to the House are published.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 by direct fetch of parliament.nz 'How to make a submission' and the select committees home page (open-for-submissions list read live).", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/how-to-make-a-submission/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "859984bdbd", "research_order": 114, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "nz-petitions-committee", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "nz", "label": "New Zealand" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/petitions/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "82b22d5b7948" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/petitions/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "982e7eff8621" } ], "level": "national", "tags": [ "law", "petition", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Greg O'Connor, MP (Labour Party, Ōhāriu)", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "powers": [ "hold-hearings", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "powers:hold-hearings": "invite the petitioner to speak in person", "powers:publish": "The committee either publishes a report to Parliament on every petition it considers" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-4e8a6d3e-e4b1-4a95-a16b-4717634e5ae0", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Petitions Committee (54th Parliament)", "ai_jurisdiction": "No AI subject matter of its own, but it is the door through which a member of the public — including a single individual — puts a new issue such as AI regulation onto Parliament's agenda when no inquiry is open. It can refer a petition to a subject committee such as Economic Development, Science and Innovation, refer it to a Minister for response, or nominate it for debate in the House.", "business": "A rolling caseload — 318 petitions listed in the committee's business index as at 22 September 2026, with new petitions presented that same day.", "public_route": "Anyone may start a petition to the House of Representatives — there is no signature threshold for presenting one, and petitions with a single signature are accepted. The committee's own advice: 'If you would like to start your own petition, it is strongly recommended that you contact Petitions Committee staff before you begin collecting signatures. The staff will help you with guidance to ensure that your petition meets the rules for form and content.' Secretariat: petitions@parliament.govt.nz. In considering a petition the committee can group similar petitions, refer it to a Minister, refer it to another select committee or consider it jointly, request assistance from the Ombudsman, work with the petitioner to collect more evidence, invite the petitioner to speak in person, and nominate it for a House debate.", "format_rules": "The committee either publishes a report to Parliament on every petition it considers, or asks a subject committee or a Minister to do so; its report can recommend law or policy changes. Note: 'The committee does not always ask for submissions on the petitions it is considering.' Petitions and reports are published.", "key_people": "4 members in total.", "note": "VERIFIED 2026-09-22 by direct fetch of the Petitions Committee page, which names the chairperson and lists the committee's powers verbatim.", "seat_notes": { "chair": "Chairperson" }, "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/petitions/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/petitions/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "a92f7cd0c4", "research_order": 113, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "rw-ministry-ict-innovation", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "rw", "label": "Rwanda" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "minict-ai-policy-page", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.minict.gov.rw/ai-policy", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "8292f3a7ba41" }, { "id": "ai-policy-details", "type": "docket", "value": "https://www.minict.gov.rw/ai-policy/ai-policy-details", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "8fba72aae909" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.minict.gov.rw/ai-policy", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "73ac0d5bb4d9" } ], "local_name": "Minisiteri y'Ikoranabuhanga mu Itumanaho n'Udushya", "region": "Africa", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "entity_key": "entity-858b8b5e-ef2c-4594-b333-11ee9cda98fb", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT)", "remit": "Owns Rwanda's National AI Policy, approved by Cabinet in April 2023 — one of the first in Africa, developed with The Future Society and GIZ. Policy/strategy body coordinating AI adoption, skills, data infrastructure and an AI ethics framework; implementation runs through the Rwanda Information Society Authority and the National Cyber Security Authority. Rwanda has hosted the Global AI Summit on Africa and is active in continental AI diplomacy. No AI-specific enforcement powers; data protection sits under Rwanda's 2021 DPP law with the NCSA.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "Rwanda is English-language and unusually outward-facing — its AI policy was co-developed with international NGOs, which is direct evidence that foreign input is not merely tolerated but solicited at the institutional level. But that is partnership-based access, not a public channel: I verified no email, no comment process, no complaint route. The policy is developmental, with no frontier-risk content.", "notes": "Not a network member. Rwanda's significance is as a convening hub for African AI governance rather than as a regulator.", "routes": { "minict-ai-policy-page": { "label": "MINICT AI policy page", "scope": "policy", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). Not fetched." }, "ai-policy-details": { "label": "AI policy details", "scope": "policy", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.minict.gov.rw/ai-policy", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.minict.gov.rw/ai-policy/ai-policy-details", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "powers", "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "d90c2db67b", "research_order": 62, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "sa-saudi-data-artificial-intelligence-authority", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "sa", "label": "Saudi Arabia" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "sdaia-english-site", "type": "form", "value": "https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/default.aspx", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en, ar", "source_id": "8ecc7e954182" }, { "id": "ai-ethics-principles", "type": "docket", "value": "https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/SDAIA/about/Documents/ai-principles.pdf", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "f26d8fdba3bb" }, { "id": "laws-regulations-index", "type": "docket", "value": "https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/SDAIA/about/Pages/RegulationsAndPolicies.aspx", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en, ar", "source_id": "37f11f53987b" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/default.aspx", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "baf0fdae7fa6" } ], "local_name": "الهيئة السعودية للبيانات والذكاء الاصطناعي", "region": "Middle East", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "flaw", "harm", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "privacy", "government-use" ], "powers": [ "fine", "make-rules", "convene" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:privacy": "it is the competent authority for the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL)", "topics:government-use": "generative-AI guidelines for government and public use", "powers:fine": "which carries criminal penalties for certain disclosure offences and administrative fines", "powers:make-rules": "and data-governance regulations", "powers:convene": "hosts the Global AI Summit" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-2550dc05-d7b2-43ff-995d-795cf3b8a3bf", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)", "remit": "The national authority for data and AI, established 2019, reporting to the Prime Minister. Unusually for this list it is BOTH a promoter and a real regulator: it is the competent authority for the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), which carries criminal penalties for certain disclosure offences and administrative fines, and it issues AI Ethics Principles (2023, updated 2025), generative-AI guidelines for government and public use, and data-governance regulations. It also runs the National Center for AI (NCAI) and hosts the Global AI Summit. AI-specific rules remain principles-based rather than binding statute.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "SDAIA publishes substantial English-language material and has run public consultations on draft data regulations through the Saudi 'Istitlaa' public consultation platform — which is a genuine, if Arabic-first, channel. But SDAIA's site actively blocks automated access, I could verify no contact address, and there is no AI-specific complaint route. PDPL complaints are for data subjects with a Saudi nexus. No frontier-risk mandate whatsoever.", "notes": "Saudi Arabia is not a network member. The 2025 update to the AI Ethics Principles is the most recent AI-governance instrument I could confirm.", "routes": { "sdaia-english-site": { "label": "SDAIA English site", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED — the URL is correct per search results but the site's WAF rejected my fetch ('The requested URL was rejected'). No contact address confirmed." }, "ai-ethics-principles": { "label": "AI Ethics Principles (2025)", "scope": "policy document", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "laws-regulations-index": { "label": "Laws and Regulations index", "scope": "regulatory texts", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/default.aspx", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/SDAIA/about/Documents/ai-principles.pdf", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/SDAIA/about/Pages/RegulationsAndPolicies.aspx", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "d337d3ce38", "research_order": 56, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "sg-digital-trust-centre", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "sg", "label": "Singapore" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "dtc-at-ntu", "type": "form", "value": "https://www.ntu.edu.sg/dtc", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "4b8999bc0276" }, { "id": "dtc-singapore-innovation-grant", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/proposal-submission/dtc-sg-innovation-grant-call", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "2ace4b92eb19" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.ntu.edu.sg/dtc", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "ecebc17b9052" } ], "region": "Singapore", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "safety-testing" ], "powers": [ "test-models", "fund" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:safety-testing": "Conducts AI testing and evaluation research", "powers:test-models": "Conducts AI testing and evaluation research, including multilingual/multicultural and agentic AI testing", "powers:fund": "runs innovation grant calls" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-5a05ec4c-e352-4015-82ee-20409919621b", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Digital Trust Centre (DTC), Nanyang Technological University", "remit": "Singapore's national R&D centre for trust technologies, hosted at NTU and funded by IMDA and the National Research Foundation. Designated in May 2024 as the technical execution arm of the Singapore AI Safety Institute. Conducts AI testing and evaluation research, including multilingual/multicultural and agentic AI testing, and runs innovation grant calls. University research centre — no regulatory power.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "As a university centre, DTC is reachable the way academic groups are: named researchers with institutional email, publications, conference presence. That is a real route for technical collaboration and far more tractable than the AISI's own contactless website. It is not a route for policy input or complaints.", "notes": "Listed separately from the Singapore AISI because the split-host model means the AISI brand and the actual research staff sit in different institutions.", "routes": { "dtc-at-ntu": { "label": "DTC at NTU", "scope": "research centre", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). Not fetched; university contact pages generally do publish staff emails." }, "dtc-singapore-innovation-grant": { "label": "DTC Singapore innovation grant call (IMDA)", "scope": "research funding, likely Singapore-based entities only", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ntu.edu.sg/dtc", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/proposal-submission/dtc-sg-innovation-grant-call", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "196ed5d71e", "research_order": 69, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "sg-infocomm-media-development-authority", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "sg", "label": "Singapore" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "imda-ai-page", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/about-imda/emerging-technologies-and-research/artificial-intelligence", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "acb3b19cd6e7" }, { "id": "imda-trust-tech-page", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/about-imda/emerging-technologies-and-research/trust-tech", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "2423d18b979f" }, { "id": "aisi-factsheet", "type": "docket", "value": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/factsheets/2024/digital-trust-centre", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "29dfcf47c9d3" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/about-imda/emerging-technologies-and-research/artificial-intelligence", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "b101fe92b656" } ], "region": "Singapore", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "privacy", "international", "safety-testing" ], "powers": [ "fine", "set-standards" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:privacy": "as PDPA administrator, with fining power", "topics:international": "international AI-safety engagement", "topics:safety-testing": "AI Verify (an open-source AI governance testing toolkit)", "powers:fine": "as PDPA administrator, with fining power", "powers:set-standards": "AI Verify (an open-source AI governance testing toolkit)" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-cac38e30-c6d4-40bf-a4b3-31f16497bc33", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)", "remit": "Statutory board and the policy owner for the Singapore AI Safety Institute, responsible for baseline AI policy and international AI-safety engagement. Produced the Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI (2024), AI Verify (an open-source AI governance testing toolkit) and the AI Verify Foundation. IMDA holds genuine statutory regulatory powers over telecoms, media and data (as PDPA administrator, with fining power), though its AI governance instruments are voluntary frameworks rather than binding AI rules.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "IMDA is the realistic Singapore channel. It has historically run genuinely open public consultations on AI governance (the GenAI framework consultation drew international submissions from major AI labs and foreign industry bodies, and responses were published), everything is in English, and Singapore actively courts international input as part of its convening strategy. This is one of the few entries where 'accepts foreign input: yes' is evidenced rather than assumed.", "notes": "AI Verify is open-source and accepts external contributions, which is another genuine foreign-participation route. Singapore's AI safety framing centres on practical assurance and testing rather than catastrophic risk.", "routes": { "imda-ai-page": { "label": "IMDA AI page", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "imda-trust-tech-page": { "label": "IMDA Trust Tech page", "scope": "general", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "aisi-factsheet": { "label": "AISI factsheet (designation of DTC)", "scope": "background", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result)." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/about-imda/emerging-technologies-and-research/artificial-intelligence", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/about-imda/emerging-technologies-and-research/trust-tech", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/factsheets/2024/digital-trust-centre", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "91bbbabcee", "research_order": 70, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "sg-singapore-ai-safety-institute", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "sg", "label": "Singapore" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "singapore-aisi-website", "type": "form", "value": "https://sgaisi.sg/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "eccb6f584064" }, { "id": "singapore-aisi-about-us", "type": "form", "value": "https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "b176cc3257f9" }, { "id": "imda-dtc-innovation-grant", "type": "consultation", "value": "https://www.imda.gov.sg/proposal-submission/dtc-sg-innovation-grant-call", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "en", "source_id": "da99b7230b75" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://sgaisi.sg/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "395cf6a4554c" } ], "region": "Singapore", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "safety-testing", "international" ], "powers": [ "test-models", "set-standards" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:safety-testing": "multilingual and multicultural testing, agentic AI testing", "topics:international": "international partnerships", "powers:test-models": "Focus areas: multilingual and multicultural testing, agentic AI testing", "powers:set-standards": "Research/standards body" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-644633c7-93eb-49e8-a523-f979d2a0ee2b", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Singapore AI Safety Institute (Singapore AISI)", "remit": "Designated May 2024. Split model: IMDA (Infocomm Media Development Authority, a statutory board) is the policy owner and handles international engagement; the Digital Trust Centre (DTC), hosted at Nanyang Technological University, executes the technical work. Focus areas: multilingual and multicultural testing, agentic AI testing, societal-impact studies, international partnerships. Research/standards body — the institute itself has no enforcement power, though IMDA as a statutory board has regulatory powers in adjacent media/telecom domains.", "powers_text": "research", "reality_check": "Fully English-language and internationally oriented in tone, but I verified by fetching that the AISI's own site publishes no contact route at all. Realistic access is via IMDA's general corporate channels or via NTU DTC researchers. Singapore does run genuine open consultations on AI governance through IMDA (e.g. Model AI Governance Framework for GenAI), and those have historically accepted international industry submissions — but that is IMDA, not the AISI.", "notes": "The Wikipedia framing 'renamed from Digital Trust Centre' is imprecise: DTC still exists as the technical host; the AISI designation was layered on top.", "routes": { "singapore-aisi-website": { "label": "Singapore AISI website", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED that the site exists and is English-language." }, "singapore-aisi-about-us": { "label": "Singapore AISI 'About Us'", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED fetched — and confirms there is NO public contact email, contact form, or engagement channel published. Only a LinkedIn link." }, "imda-dtc-innovation-grant": { "label": "IMDA DTC innovation grant call (proposal submission)", "scope": "research funding, Singapore-linked entities", "note": "UNVERIFIED (search result). Grant route, not a public-comment route; almost certainly restricted to Singapore-based institutions." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://sgaisi.sg/", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "91e9447772", "research_order": 35, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "tw-ministry-digital-affairs", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "tw", "label": "Taiwan" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "moda-ai-governance-page", "type": "form", "value": "https://moda.gov.tw/en/major-policies/ai/governance/19248", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "en", "source_id": "0c2f3a1f2e0d" }, { "id": "moda-switchboard-postal", "type": "email", "value": "+886-2-2380-0777 (fax +886-2-2380-0791); No. 143, Yanping S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100057", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "language": "zh, en", "source_id": "93e364a53a85" }, { "id": "taiwan-join-public-policy", "type": "consultation", "value": null, "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "language": "zh" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://moda.gov.tw/en/major-policies/ai/governance/19248", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "717408b3f56e" } ], "local_name": "數位發展部", "region": "Taiwan", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "systemic" ], "topics": [ "standards", "safety-testing" ], "powers": [ "set-standards" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:standards": "MODA's AI powers are coordinating and standard-setting, not punitive", "topics:safety-testing": "tasked with building risk classification frameworks and evaluation tools", "powers:set-standards": "MODA's AI powers are coordinating and standard-setting, not punitive" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-6374bf4c-437a-4036-8e6e-69845ed7f84d", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA)", "remit": "Taiwan's AI Basic Act (人工智慧基本法) is IN FORCE as of 2026 — a framework statute setting principles (sustainability, human autonomy, privacy, security, transparency, fairness, accountability) and directing agencies rather than imposing direct obligations on developers. MODA is the lead implementing agency, tasked with building risk classification frameworks and evaluation tools; the National Science and Technology Council also has a role. The Act is principles-based with sectoral implementation, so MODA's AI powers are coordinating and standard-setting, not punitive; MODA does hold separate regulatory powers over telecoms and digital services.", "powers_text": "advise", "reality_check": "Genuinely good on transparency: MODA maintains a full English-language policy site and Taiwan has an unusually strong civic-participation tradition (vTaiwan, join.gov.tw) with a real record of open deliberation on digital policy. That said, the draft-regulation comment platform is Chinese-language, and the published MODA contact email was obfuscated so I cannot supply it. Taiwan's diplomatic status also excludes it from the international network and most multilateral AI processes — a genuine gap.", "notes": "Taiwan's AI Basic Act is distinctive for a democratic-governance framing rather than a risk-tier framing. No explicit frontier/catastrophic-risk mandate identified.", "routes": { "moda-ai-governance-page": { "label": "MODA AI governance page (English)", "scope": "policy information", "note": "VERIFIED fetched. Page confirms the AI Basic Act is 'officially in force'. The contact email is rendered obfuscated as '[email protected]' and I could NOT read the actual address — do not publish one." }, "moda-switchboard-postal": { "label": "MODA switchboard / postal", "scope": "general", "note": "VERIFIED — published in the MODA English page footer and fetched." }, "taiwan-join-public-policy": { "label": "Taiwan 'Join' public policy participation platform (join.gov.tw)", "scope": "public policy proposals and draft-regulation comment", "note": "UNVERIFIED URL — Taiwan operates a well-regarded national e-participation platform used for draft-regulation comment periods, but I did not verify it or confirm a live AI consultation." }, "homepage": { "label": "Homepage" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://moda.gov.tw/en/major-policies/ai/governance/19248", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "1036ce9394", "research_order": 58, "migrated_from": "input/data/institutions.json" } }, { "id": "us-assembly-committee-privacy-consumer-protection", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "ca", "label": "California" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://apcp.assembly.ca.gov/welcome-committee-privacy-and-consumer-protection", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "3fd5c29263c4" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "ef9260462412" } ], "level": "state", "chamber": "Assembly", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Rebecca Bauer-Kahan", "party": "D", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "frontier-ai", "privacy", "transparency", "children", "health", "deepfakes" ], "powers": [ "legislate", "hold-hearings" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:frontier-ai": "SB 53 (Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, Wiener)", "topics:privacy": "chatbot, data-privacy and AI-transparency bills", "topics:transparency": "chatbot, data-privacy and AI-transparency bills", "topics:children": "AB 2246 (minors/design code, signed 10 Sep 2026)", "topics:health": "joint hearing track with the Select Committee on Biotechnology and Medical Technology on AI in health", "topics:deepfakes": "SB 1050 (synthetic performer disclosure, signed 16 Sep 2026)", "powers:legislate": "Primary Assembly committee of first referral for AI, algorithmic decision-making, chatbot, data-privacy and AI-transparency bills", "powers:hold-hearings": "In-person testimony at the hearing is open" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-34da1192-38d9-4c41-a746-37189174f3ed", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection", "ai_jurisdiction": "Primary Assembly committee of first referral for AI, algorithmic decision-making, chatbot, data-privacy and AI-transparency bills (e.g. SB 53, AB 1064, AB 1018, companion-chatbot bills). Also runs a joint hearing track with the Select Committee on Biotechnology and Medical Technology on AI in health.", "business": "SB 53 (Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, Wiener) — signed 25 Sep 2025. 2026 follow-ons signed: SB 813 (independent verification organizations, signed 9 Sep 2026), AB 1405 (AI auditor registry, signed 9 Sep 2026), SB 1119 + SB 867 (companion chatbots / AI toys, signed 10 Sep 2026), AB 1709, AB 1856, AB 2246 (minors/design code, signed 10 Sep 2026), SB 1050 (synthetic performer disclosure, signed 16 Sep 2026). Pending on Governor's desk as of 22 Sep 2026: SB 1000, AB 2713, AB 1609, SB 1111, SB 947, AB 1883.", "status": "VERIFIED — SB 53 in force; CA Dept. of Technology begins annual threshold reviews in 2027. EO N-9-26 (18 Sep 2026) accelerates SB 813/AB 1405 implementation and directs work toward a frontier-model 'kill switch'. 2026 session closed; ~two dozen AI bills signed 9–16 Sep 2026.", "public_route": "YES — strongest and most underused route in the country. Any individual may register once and file a formal position letter (Support / Oppose / Amend) on any bill through the Legislature's Advocates portal; the letter is entered into the committee's official bill file and summarized in the committee analysis. Deadline convention for this committee: 12:00 noon on the Tuesday one week before the Tuesday hearing. Written testimony submitted this way is public comment and may be read into the record. In-person testimony at the hearing is open (two primary witnesses per side plus an open 'me-too' line); telephonic testimony has been discontinued.", "agency_route": "CA Attorney General (oag.ca.gov — AI legal advisories, Jan 2025; exclusive SB 53 civil enforcement); California Privacy Protection Agency for automated decision-making technology under the CCPA ADMT regs (https://cppa.ca.gov/regulations/ccpa_updates.html); California Civil Rights Department for FEHA automated-decision-system employment rules. Consumer complaints: https://oag.ca.gov/report", "note": "The position-letter portal is open to 'individuals' as a registration category, not just lobbyists — confirmed on the portal itself. This is the single highest-leverage public-participation channel in US state AI policy and is dominated by trade associations.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://apcp.assembly.ca.gov/welcome-committee-privacy-and-consumer-protection", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "b9d26105a5", "research_order": 51, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "us-california-attorney-general-catastrophic-risks-artificial", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "ca", "label": "California, USA — but binding on frontier developers doing business in California, so de facto national" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "sb-53-covered-employee", "type": "complaint", "value": "https://oag.ca.gov/contact/general-contact-form", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "fc40c41e8ab9" }, { "id": "dedicated-sb-53-email", "type": "email", "value": "none published", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "3dcdeac6af36" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://oag.ca.gov/sb53", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "8e727cefbd7d" } ], "region": "United States", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "harm", "insider" ], "topics": [ "frontier-ai", "whistleblowing", "transparency" ], "powers": [ "enforce", "fine", "handle-complaints", "publish" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:frontier-ai": "Enforces the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act", "topics:whistleblowing": "SB 53 also creates whistleblower protection for covered employees", "topics:transparency": "all frontier developers must publish transparency reports before deployment", "powers:enforce": "Enforces the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act", "powers:fine": "The AG can seek civil penalties of up to $1,000,000 per violation.", "powers:handle-complaints": "Covered employees are the intended users, but the form itself is open.", "powers:publish": "The AG must publish an annual anonymised, aggregated report on employee reports received." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-cebe1dac-eddf-4120-9c82-00a2fb12dd15", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "California Attorney General — Catastrophic Risks in Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models (SB 53 / TFAIA enforcement)", "remit": "Enforces the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53, signed 29 September 2025). Large frontier developers must publish a Frontier AI Framework covering catastrophic-risk identification, mitigation and governance; all frontier developers must publish transparency reports before deployment; critical safety incidents must be reported to Cal OES within 15 days (24 hours if imminent danger). The AG can seek civil penalties of up to $1,000,000 per violation. SB 53 also creates whistleblower protection for covered employees and requires anonymous internal reporting channels. The AG must publish an annual anonymised, aggregated report on employee reports received.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "This is, as of now, the ONLY government channel anywhere in the US built specifically to receive reports about CATASTROPHIC risk from frontier models, with statutory whistleblower protection behind it and a $1m-per-violation penalty. It is a real lever and it is badly publicised — the route is a category buried in the AG's generic contact form. Covered employees are the intended users, but the form itself is open. The AG's annual aggregate report means submissions become part of a public record. If you have insider information about a frontier developer's safety practices, this is the highest-value single address in this directory.", "notes": "California's Department of Technology may recommend updates to statutory definitions such as the 'frontier model' compute threshold, so the covered set will shift over time.", "routes": { "sb-53-covered-employee": { "label": "SB 53 covered-employee reports to the Attorney General", "scope": "Complete the online contact form and select the category 'Catastrophic risks in AI foundation models – employee reports (SB 53)'. For employees and contractors of frontier developers reporting catastrophic risk or non-compliance.", "note": "VERIFIED — quoted from https://oag.ca.gov/sb53. 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SB 53 ALSO requires Cal OES to establish a mechanism for THE PUBLIC to report critical safety incidents. Cal OES does not fine or investigate developers itself; it receives, aggregates and refers, and reports to the legislature.", "powers_text": "investigate", "reality_check": "Genuinely novel: a government incident-report inbox for frontier AI catastrophic risk that anyone can reach. It is brand new, thinly staffed, and sits inside the state's cyber-threat integration centre rather than an AI-specific unit, so expect reports to be triaged as security incidents. Its value is that filings here become part of the statutory record that feeds the AG's enforcement and the legislature's review. No email, no phone — the portal is the only published route, and reports are confidential.", "notes": "Buried four levels deep on the Cal OES site under Cal-CSIC; almost nobody finds it without the direct link.", "routes": { "tfaia-reporting-portal": { "label": "TFAIA reporting portal (secure)", "scope": "Submission of critical safety incidents and catastrophic-risk assessments. Cal OES describes it as a 'secure TFAIA Portal', also reachable by QR code from its page.", "note": "VERIFIED — this exact URL is published on the Cal OES TFAIA reporting page. It is a third-party (Kaseware) hosted intake, which is why the URL looks unofficial; it is the one Cal OES publishes." }, "distinct-public-reporting-channel": { "label": "Distinct public reporting channel", "scope": "n/a", "note": "VERIFIED PARTIAL ABSENCE — SB 53 requires a public reporting mechanism, but the Cal OES page presents a single portal without distinguishing a public-facing channel from the developer channel. 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Enforces the CCPA/CPRA, including regulations on automated decisionmaking technology (ADMT), risk assessments and cybersecurity audits — the ADMT rules reach AI used for significant decisions about Californians. Can investigate, hold administrative hearings, issue orders and impose administrative fines (up to $2,500 per violation, $7,500 for intentional violations or violations involving minors). Conducts formal rulemaking with public comment.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "The complaint form genuinely initiates enforcement review and the CPPA has been willing to act. Its formal rulemaking is the better lever for policy input: California's Administrative Procedure Act requires the agency to publish and respond to every comment, and the ADMT regulations changed substantially across drafts in response to comments. Scope is data-protection and automated decisions about individuals — NOT frontier or catastrophic risk. Route those to the AG (SB 53) or Cal OES instead.", "notes": "ADMT obligations phase in over 2026-2027; check current compliance dates before relying on a deadline.", "routes": { "cppa-complaint-form": { "label": "CPPA complaint form", "scope": "Any consumer may complain about a business's handling of personal information, including ADMT and AI-driven decisions.", "note": "VERIFIED on https://www.cppa.ca.gov/about_us/contact.html." }, "rulemaking-proposed-regulations-comment": { "label": "Rulemaking — proposed regulations and comment periods", "scope": "The ADMT, risk-assessment and cyber-audit regulations went through formal notice-and-comment here.", "note": "VERIFIED as the page the CPPA's own contact page directs to for laws and regulations." }, "named-staff-email": { "label": "Named staff email", "scope": "n/a", "note": "VERIFIED ABSENCE — CPPA publishes no email addresses and directs all contact to web forms. 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SB 53's Senate policy vehicle.", "business": "SB 53 (TFAIA, 2025); SB 813 (independent verification organizations, signed 9 Sep 2026); SB 1111 (digital replicas, pending); SB 947 (automated employment decisions, pending, would take effect 1 Jul 2027).", "status": "VERIFIED — Umberg appointed Judiciary chair for the 2025–2026 session; still chair at close of the 2026 session.", "public_route": "YES — position letters accepted from any member of the public via the Advocates portal, by email to sjud.fax@sen.ca.gov, by fax (916) 403-7394, or by mail (1021 O Street, Room 3240, Sacramento CA 95814). Deadline: 12:00 p.m. the Tuesday before the hearing unless otherwise stated. Committee staff explicitly warn they do not forward letters to individual members' offices, so copy members directly.", "agency_route": "Same as Assembly entry — CA AG (oag.ca.gov/report), CPPA, California Civil Rights Department.", "note": "Committee letter-policy page and deadline verified on sjud.senate.ca.gov 22 Sep 2026. 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This entry answers the brief's recurring question of whether a chair's own office beats the committee. Rule of thumb, verified against the contact structures above: for almost every committee in this list, a constituent should go to the member's own district or state office first, and a non-constituent should go to the committee or to an organization that has standing with it.", "business": "Not applicable.", "public_route": "Find your representative at https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative and your senators at https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm. Congressional offices systematically deprioritize mail from non-constituents; most Senate and House web forms require an in-state or in-district address and will reject others. Committee staff, by contrast, are policy staff who read substantive material regardless of its origin but have no casework obligation to anyone.", "note": "Guidance entry, included because the per-committee 'chair's own office vs committee' question has a consistent answer. 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Its AI guidance documents are produced with industry partners and occasionally take comment via the Federal Register; that is the policy lever, the incident line is the operational one.", "notes": "Note the practical caveat on CISA's own site: email is not secure and CISA prefers its structured reporting forms.", "routes": { "report-cyber-incident-cisa": { "label": "Report a cyber incident to CISA", "scope": "Anyone may report a cyber incident, including AI-enabled attacks or compromise of AI systems.", "note": "UNVERIFIED as fetched; the reporting hub https://www.cisa.gov/reporting-cyber-incident appeared in search results." }, "cisa-central": { "label": "CISA Central", "scope": "General incident reporting and CISA Central intake.", "note": "UNVERIFIED as a live fetch — the CISA contact page was fetched but the email strings were machine-redacted. This address appears in CISA's own published PDF guidance. 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Rescinded the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule in 2025 and codified a revised advanced-chip licence review policy in Jan 2026 (see 91 FR, doc 2026-00789). Can deny licences, impose civil penalties, add parties to the Entity List / Denied Persons List, and refer criminal cases. This is the single hardest-edged US compute-governance lever.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "The tip line is real and is read — export-enforcement leads are triaged by OEE agents and this is one of the very few US channels where a member of the public can trigger an actual investigation into AI-related conduct. Comment on interim final rules is technically open but BIS rules take effect immediately and are rarely reversed by comment; industry influence here runs through licensing counsel and direct agency meetings. If your concern is frontier compute proliferation, this is the agency with teeth — but frame it as a control violation, not as a safety argument.", "notes": "BIS policy on AI chips changed materially in Jan 2026; anything relying on the 2025 AI Diffusion Rule is obsolete (it was rescinded).", "routes": { "confidential-export-enforcement-lead": { "label": "Confidential export-enforcement lead/tip form", "scope": "Report suspected export-control violations, including diversion of controlled AI chips. BIS's contact page links a confidential lead/tip form and its OEE field offices.", "note": "VERIFIED — the contact page was fetched and shows the confidential tip route; the form's own deep link was not separately fetched." }, "export-counselling": { "label": "Export counselling", "scope": "Guidance on EAR obligations, Mon-Fri 8am-5pm ET, Washington DC office.", "note": "VERIFIED on https://www.bis.gov/contact-us. BIS publishes phone lines rather than email for counselling (Denied Persons List 202-482-0043; Entity List 202-482-5991; Unverified List 202-482-4255)." }, "public-comment-proposed-ear": { "label": "Public comment on proposed EAR rules", "scope": "BIS interim final rules on AI chips routinely invite comment for 30-60 days after publication.", "note": "UNVERIFIED as fetched. 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If you want to reach this work, the realistic paths are a lab affiliation, a university PI on a Genesis award, or the congressional appropriations and authorisation process for NNSA.", "notes": "Do not conflate Genesis Mission (AI accelerating science) with DOE's much smaller classified AI-risk evaluation role.", "routes": { "genesis-mission-funding-announcements": { "label": "Genesis Mission funding announcements and RFA webinars", "scope": "Research community input via funding calls, not a general public comment route.", "note": "UNVERIFIED as fetched; URL from search results on energy.gov." }, "doe-requests-information-federal": { "label": "DOE Requests for Information in the Federal Register", "scope": "DOE issues occasional RFIs on AI and grid/compute siting that take public comment.", "note": "UNVERIFIED as fetched." }, "ai-risk-specific-public": { "label": "AI-risk-specific public contact at DOE or the labs", "scope": "n/a", "note": "UNVERIFIED ABSENCE — no dedicated AI-risk public inbox was found. 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Status as a currently constituted 119th Congress body is UNVERIFIED and appears to be dormant — this is a correction to any guide that lists it as active.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://obernolte.house.gov/AITFReport", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "topics", "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "8682f1851e", "research_order": 49, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "us-house-committee-appropriations", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "federal", "label": "United States" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://appropriations.house.gov/about/membership", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "1293b4456156" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://appropriations.house.gov/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "98a8bc058195" } ], "level": "federal", "chamber": "House", "tags": [ "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Tom Cole", "party": "R", "region": "OK", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" }, { "role": "ranking", "name": "Rosa L. 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FY27 member-request guidance published at https://appropriations.house.gov/fy27-information/fy27-member-requests-guidance.", "public_route": "VERIFIED: https://appropriations.house.gov/contact and https://appropriations.house.gov/about/offices/contact. Committee: H-305 The Capitol, Washington DC 20515, 202-225-2771. 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Send here: autonomous weapons policy, AI in nuclear command and control, DoD AI acquisition and the Chief Digital and AI Office, DARPA, military AI test and evaluation, DoD compute and data centers, and defense AI workforce.", "business": "VERIFIED: the FY2026 NDAA carried extensive AI and cyber provisions (CRS In Focus IF13197), and House and Senate AI provisions went to conference. For FY2027, Rep. Bacon delivered an opening statement on the Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation subcommittee print of the FY27 NDAA (armedservices.house.gov DocumentID 6617). A CITI subcommittee hearing on DoD science, technology and innovation posture was scheduled and then cancelled in April 2026.", "public_route": "VERIFIED: https://armedservices.house.gov/contact. Committee: 2216 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC 20515, 202-225-4151. 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Owns the FTC, FCC, NTIA, interstate commerce, consumer protection, telecommunications, electricity and the grid, and health (FDA/HHS). Send here: comprehensive federal AI legislation and preemption of state AI laws, commercial data privacy, AI consumer protection and deceptive practices, AI and kids, AI's electricity demand and ratepayer impact, AI in health care, and communications infrastructure for AI.", "business": "VERIFIED: 'AI Regulation and the Future of US Leadership' (Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee, 21 May 2025, 2322 Rayburn). 'Seizing America's AI Opportunity' (CMT Subcommittee). 'AI and the Grid: Meeting Growing Power Demand While Protecting Ratepayers' (Energy Subcommittee). Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on network infrastructure demands for AI and AI in media and entertainment; a separate C&T hearing on AI and communications infrastructure. CMT hearing on AI in American manufacturing, 3 Jun 2026 (docket HHRG-119-IF17-20260603). The committee was also the House locus of the 2025 fight over a federal moratorium on state AI laws.", "public_route": "VERIFIED: https://energycommerce.house.gov/contact-us. Committee: 2125 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC 20515, 202-225-3641; press 202-226-4972. Minority site: https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/ (separate Democratic staff and contact).", "note": "Chair/ranking verified 2026-09-22 from the House Clerk's official MemberData.xml, publish-date 2 Sep 2026, 119th Congress 2nd session.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://energycommerce.house.gov/representatives", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://energycommerce.house.gov/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "1e6dd17906", "research_order": 23, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "us-house-committee-financial-services", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "federal", "label": "United States" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://financialservices.house.gov/about/members.htm", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "a5d779638b07" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://financialservices.house.gov/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "3711f603289a" } ], "level": "federal", "chamber": "House", "tags": [ "law" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "J. 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Send here: data-center electricity demand and who pays for it, grid interconnection queues, DOE national laboratories as AI compute and evaluation venues, DOE AI programs, nuclear and geothermal siting for AI loads, and ratepayer protection when utilities serve hyperscale data centers. This has become one of the busiest AI-adjacent committees because energy is the binding constraint on AI buildout.", "business": "VERIFIED: the committee has held hearings on AI data centers and electricity demand (C-SPAN program record 662912). March 2026: Ranking Member Heinrich published an energy-affordability agenda tied to data-center load growth. September 2026: legislation to curb AI data-center utility costs stalled in the Senate (CNBC, 17 Sep 2026). Heinrich is also co-chair of the Senate AI Caucus, so this committee's ranking member is a principal Senate AI actor. 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Send here: international AI governance bodies and treaties, State Department AI policy and the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, AI provisions in bilateral technology agreements, AI and human rights abroad, foreign assistance involving AI, and confirmation of relevant ambassadors and State officials. Note that the statutory export-control authority sits in Banking, not here — Foreign Relations gets the diplomacy and the sanctions framing.", "business": "UNVERIFIED for a named 2026 AI hearing. The committee's AI-relevant work in the 119th Congress has run through nominations, China technology-competition oversight, and its Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy.", "public_route": "VERIFIED: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/about/contact. 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Send here: AI and job displacement, worker surveillance and algorithmic management, AI in hiring and employment discrimination (with EEOC), FDA regulation of AI medical devices and clinical decision support, AI in drug development, AI in K-12 and higher education, and AI literacy. If your concern is 'my employer is using AI on me' or 'an AI tool is making medical decisions', this is the door.", "business": "VERIFIED: Cassidy released a committee white paper on artificial intelligence (https://www.help.senate.gov/help-committee-gop-final-ai-white-paper) covering AI in health care, education, labor and the FDA, and solicited stakeholder responses — an explicit, documented public-comment opportunity. Hearing 'The Impact of AI on the Workforce' (https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/the-impact-of-ai-on-the-workforce). Sanders as ranking member has made AI-driven job displacement and a shorter work week a signature theme.", "public_route": "VERIFIED: there is no committee-wide /contact page. Published routes are the chair's and ranking member's own Senate offices — Cassidy at https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/contact and Sanders press at https://www.sanders.senate.gov/contact/press-inquiries/. 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AI harms to individual consumers: deceptive AI claims, algorithmic pricing, AI chatbots and companion apps marketed to minors, dark patterns, commercial surveillance and data privacy as inputs to AI training, kids' online safety. This is where a parent, a consumer, or a state AG concern about a specific AI product lands. Not the venue for compute, export controls or model-level safety testing.", "business": "VERIFIED: Blackburn is lead sponsor of S.1748 Kids Online Safety Act, advanced by the full committee 5 Aug 2026 alongside three AI-specific children's bills (S.4199, S.4407, S.5171). May 2026: Blackburn and Blumenthal announced OpenAI's endorsement of KOSA ahead of a Senate hearing on social-media verdicts. Blackburn simultaneously chairs Senate Judiciary's Privacy, Technology and the Law subcommittee, so consumer-AI and civil-liberties-AI work runs through the same senator in both committees.", "public_route": "Same as parent committee: majority 202-224-1251 (Dirksen 554), minority 202-224-0411 (Hart 428). Subcommittee-specific staff are not published separately. A constituent of Tennessee or Colorado should go through the member's own state office first.", "note": "Exact 119th Congress name verified 2026-09-22 on senate.gov and commerce.senate.gov. 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Send here: AI training data and copyright (fair use, licensing, transparency of training corpora), digital replicas and the right of publicity, AI and patents/inventorship, Copyright Office and USPTO policy, Section 230 and platform liability, and courts' use of AI. If you are a creator, rightsholder or platform, this is the House door.", "business": "VERIFIED: July 2026 hearing at which witnesses urged action on a site-blocking mechanism and the NO FAKES Act (ipwatchdog, 2 Jul 2026). Hearing on protecting creators in the age of AI and the internet. The subcommittee continues the 'Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property' hearing series begun with 'Part I — Interoperability of AI and Copyright Law'. 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Send here: whether and how agencies deploy AI in decisions affecting the public, AI procurement standards, OMB memoranda on AI, federal cybersecurity, IT modernization, and emerging technology inside government. This is the House venue where the 'government is using an algorithm on me' complaint belongs.", "business": "VERIFIED: hearings 'Examining the Federal Government's Use of Artificial Intelligence' (with published wrap-up 'Federal Government Use of Artificial Intelligence Poses Promise, Peril'), 'The Future of Artificial Intelligence', a hearing on White House AI policy, a hearing on unlocking government efficiency through IT modernization, and a bipartisan AI roundtable. The subcommittee maintains a public archive at https://oversight.house.gov/category/cybersecurity-information-technology-and-government-innovation/.", "public_route": "Full-committee contact https://oversight.house.gov/contact, 202-225-5074. 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The order signaled carve-outs for child safety and AI compute/data-center infrastructure.", "status": "VERIFIED — as of 1 July 2026 states had still enacted 109 AI laws and 28 data-center laws in 2026, versus 121 and 27 at the same point in 2025. Roughly 61% of Republican-controlled and 69% of Democratic-controlled states enacted AI legislation, so the chilling effect was real but not partisan. Concrete litigation consequences: x.AI's challenge restrained Colorado AG enforcement; xAI sued Minnesota over its nudification ban and lost its bid to pause it.", "public_route": "N/A at the federal level for these actions, but this is precisely why state-level testimony matters more right now: Virginia legislators explicitly cited the federal order when tabling AI bills to 2027, and child-safety framing is the carve-out that is still moving. 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NJ agendas are often posted with little notice, so monitoring the committee schedule page is essential.", "agency_route": "STRONGEST NJ ROUTE — New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (Office of the Attorney General). AG Platkin and DCR issued Guidance on Algorithmic Discrimination (8 Jan 2025) holding that the NJ Law Against Discrimination applies to algorithmic and AI-driven discrimination in employment, housing, lending and places of public accommodation, and created a Civil Rights Innovation Lab. NJ adopted disparate-impact rules under the LAD in December 2025 with specific AI guidance. File a complaint: https://www.njoag.gov/about/divisions-and-offices/division-on-civil-rights-home/", "note": "Chair verified from the 17 Mar 2026 committee action reported contemporaneously. Tully also serves as vice-chair of Commerce, Economic Development and Agriculture. 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Paul Moriarty and Angela McKnight, D) — introduced 18 June 2026, referred to Senate Commerce, PENDING IN COMMITTEE as of 22 Sep 2026. Also S1840, S2862. Senate Democrats separately moved legislation on energy demand from AI data centers.", "status": "VERIFIED for the bill; CHAIR UNVERIFIED. S4474 has not advanced out of committee.", "public_route": "YES — register through the Legislature's Committee Registrations portal to testify at a Senate committee meeting; written statements accepted via the committee aide. Because S4474 is stalled in committee, requesting a hearing from the chair and the sponsors is the operative action.", "agency_route": "NJ Division on Civil Rights algorithmic discrimination guidance and complaint route — https://www.njoag.gov/about/divisions-and-offices/division-on-civil-rights-home/ ; NJ Division of Consumer Affairs for consumer AI matters.", "note": "CHAIR UNVERIFIED — the njleg.state.nj.us committee member pages did not render retrievable rosters for the 2026-2027 (222nd) Legislature. Verify with the Office of Legislative Services, 800-792-8630 or leginfo@njleg.org.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2027-03-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/committees/senate-committees", "checked": null }, { "url": "https://njleg.gov/committee-registrations", "checked": null } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "dbec09ee4c", "research_order": 78, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "us-assembly-standing-committee-science-technology", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "ny", "label": "New York" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://nyassembly.gov/comm/?id=159", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "62da620b2b74" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://nyassembly.gov/comm/?id=159", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "680234e892ad" } ], "level": "state", "chamber": "Assembly", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Steven Otis", "party": "D", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "frontier-ai", "transparency", "work" ], "powers": [ "legislate" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:frontier-ai": "frontier-model bills", "topics:transparency": "A6578 (AI training-data transparency)", "topics:work": "A9581 (AI employment-impact reporting)", "powers:legislate": "Assembly committee of reference for AI, emerging-technology and frontier-model bills" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-c9483e7d-821d-4d9b-85ba-11cb8ebc0203", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Assembly Standing Committee on Science and Technology", "ai_jurisdiction": "Assembly committee of reference for AI, emerging-technology and frontier-model bills. Alex Bores, the RAISE Act Assembly sponsor, sits on it.", "business": "A6453B (RAISE Act, Bores) — signed 19 Dec 2025, effective 1 Jan 2027; A6578 (AI training-data transparency); A10379 (companion chatbots); A9349 (One Fair Price Act); A9581 (AI employment-impact reporting); A3411B (generative-AI notice).", "status": "VERIFIED — members listed 22 Sep 2026: Blumencranz, Bores, Burke, Conrad, Durso, Gibbs, Hooks, Vanel.", "public_route": "PARTIAL — the Assembly does not run a general online bill-comment tool equivalent to the Senate's. Participation is via (a) written testimony to noticed Assembly or joint public hearings, submitted to the committee in advance per the hearing notice, and (b) direct written submissions to the chair and your own member. Anyone may submit written testimony to a public hearing without appearing.", "agency_route": "NY Attorney General (https://ag.ny.gov/complaint-forms); NY Department of Financial Services frontier-AI oversight office.", "note": "Ranking minority member not published on the committee page; Blumencranz and Durso are the Republican members listed.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://nyassembly.gov/comm/?id=159", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "537d38aebd", "research_order": 55, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "us-new-york-state-attorney-general-raise", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "ny", "label": "New York State, USA" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "ny-attorney-general-complaint", "type": "complaint", "value": "https://ag.ny.gov/complaint-forms", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "4adba7a040ce" }, { "id": "raise-act-incident-reporting", "type": "form", "value": "not yet published", "verified": false, "verification_method": "secondary_citation", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "9ae6d9dc1247" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://ag.ny.gov/", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "ceb42b162f30" } ], "region": "United States", "public_input": "limited", "tags": [ "harm", "insider", "law", "systemic" ], "topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "enforce", "fine", "make-rules" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:frontier-ai": "Requires large frontier developers to write, publish and follow a safety protocol", "powers:enforce": "Enforcement is exclusively by the NY Attorney General through civil penalties", "powers:fine": "Enforcement is exclusively by the NY Attorney General through civil penalties", "powers:make-rules": "the AG's rulemaking/guidance process" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-439206bf-b029-483c-80c1-143f3f5839ed", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "New York State Attorney General — RAISE Act (Responsible AI Safety and Education Act) enforcement", "remit": "Enforces the RAISE Act, signed by Governor Hochul (late 2025) and substantially amended/overhauled in April 2026; it takes effect 1 January 2027. Requires large frontier developers to write, publish and follow a safety protocol addressing unreasonable risk of critical harm, to report safety incidents, and bars deploying a model posing unreasonable risk of critical harm. Enforcement is exclusively by the NY Attorney General through civil penalties; there is no private right of action.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "Not yet a live route. The law is on the books but does not bite until 1 Jan 2027, and unlike California there is no published AI-specific reporting channel and no equivalent of the SB 53 whistleblower category. Until the effective date, the real lever in New York is the legislature and the AG's rulemaking/guidance process, not a complaint form. Note also that the April 2026 overhaul materially changed the original 2025 text — any analysis based on the bill as first passed is out of date.", "notes": "RAISE sits directly in the path of the December 2025 federal preemption Executive Order and the DOJ AI Litigation Task Force; its survivability is contested.", "routes": { "ny-attorney-general-complaint": { "label": "NY Attorney General complaint forms", "scope": "The AG's general complaint intake; as of now there is no RAISE-Act-specific category equivalent to California's.", "note": "UNVERIFIED as fetched — the NY AG site was not directly retrieved. Do not assume a RAISE-specific route exists yet." }, "raise-act-incident-reporting": { "label": "RAISE Act incident reporting channel", "scope": "n/a", "note": "UNVERIFIED ABSENCE — the Act does not take effect until 1 January 2027 and no dedicated public reporting portal was located. 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Held a dedicated public hearing on AI in consequential/high-risk contexts on 15 Jan 2026.", "business": "RAISE Act, S6953B / A6453B (Gounardes / Bores) — signed 19 Dec 2025 (chapter amendments negotiated with Gov. Hochul). 2026 passed and awaiting Hochul action: A3411B (generative-AI inaccuracy notice, passed Senate 9 Mar 2026); A6578/S6955 (AI training-data transparency); A10379/S9051 (companion chatbots + 5-year AI children's-toy moratorium); A9349/S8623 (One Fair Price Act, surveillance pricing); A9581/S8706 (AI employment-impact reporting).", "status": "VERIFIED — RAISE Act takes effect 1 January 2027. Chapter amendments lowered the 'large developer' trigger from $100M compute spend to $500M annual revenue and cut penalties from $10–30M to $1–3M. 2026 bills remain on the Governor's desk; she has until year-end 2026 to act.", "public_route": "PARTIAL but real. Two routes: (1) any New Yorker can register a formal position on any bill directly on its NYSenate.gov page using the 'Aye'/'Nay' buttons with a written comment — the position and comment are transmitted immediately to that person's own senator's office; this is free, open, and almost entirely unused by the public. (2) For a noticed committee public hearing, testimony is by hearing-specific reply form circulated with the hearing notice, filed in advance with the committee; written statements are accepted from anyone even without speaking.", "agency_route": "New York Attorney General — exclusive RAISE Act civil enforcement (complaints: https://ag.ny.gov/complaint-forms). Separate frontier-AI oversight office created inside the Department of Financial Services to assess large frontier developers, collect fees, issue regulations and publish annual reports (https://www.dfs.ny.gov).", "note": "Ranking minority member: Daniel G. Stec (R/C/IP, SD-45), verified 2026-09-22. Members: Gounardes, Hinchey, Parker, Walczyk, Zellner.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/committees/internet-and-technology", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/citizen-guide", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "8912a0c9ab", "research_order": 54, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "us-house-committee-delivery-government-efficiency", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "tx", "label": "Texas" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://capitol.texas.gov/Committees/MembershipCmte.aspx?LegSess=89R&CmteCode=C233", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "a4b1e92d6577" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://comments.house.texas.gov/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "d02ab6634b4c" } ], "level": "state", "chamber": "House", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Giovanni Capriglione", "party": "R", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "government-use" ], "powers": [ "legislate", "hold-hearings" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:government-use": "jurisdiction over state technology, AI governance and government efficiency", "powers:legislate": "House committee that heard and reported TRAIGA (HB 149)", "powers:hold-hearings": "House committee that heard and reported TRAIGA (HB 149)" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-8c8380b6-927e-4d54-aee4-7ef8aa1c1465", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "House Committee on Delivery of Government Efficiency", "ai_jurisdiction": "House committee that heard and reported TRAIGA (HB 149) in the 89th Legislature; jurisdiction over state technology, AI governance and government efficiency.", "business": "HB 149, Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA), Capriglione — passed House 147-0, Senate 31-0; signed June 2025; IN FORCE since 1 January 2026. Companion 89R AI bills: SB 1964 (state-agency AI use), HB 2818 (AI Division inside DIR), SB 441 and HB 3133 (deepfakes), SB 2420 (App Store Accountability), SB 1188 (health records/AI), HB 3512 (state-employee AI training).", "status": "VERIFIED, IN FORCE — TRAIGA is intent-based, bars a private right of action, preempts local AI ordinances, gives the AG a 60-day cure period, creates a 7-member Texas Artificial Intelligence Council inside DIR and a 36-month AI regulatory sandbox administered by DIR.", "public_route": "YES, and unusually easy. Texas runs a dedicated online House Public Comment portal: any member of the public can submit a written comment for or against any bill set for a House committee hearing, from anywhere, without travelling to Austin. Comments are accepted from the time the hearing is posted until the committee closes the record (typically shortly after the hearing adjourns). In-person witness registration is done at Capitol kiosks or via the committee clerk. Note: 2026 is an interim year — the 90th Legislature convenes January 2027 — so the live route right now is interim-charge hearings.", "agency_route": "Texas Attorney General — sole TRAIGA enforcement authority; TRAIGA required the AG to stand up an online AI complaint mechanism. AI rights and complaint route: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumer-protection/file-consumer-complaint/consumer-ai-rights ; portal: https://consumerprotection.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumercomplaintportal/s/ . Civil penalties $10,000–$200,000.", "note": "Vice Chair: Salman Bhojani. Also relevant: Texas Artificial Intelligence Council (7 public members, within DIR) created by TRAIGA.", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/Committees/MembershipCmte.aspx?LegSess=89R&CmteCode=C233", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://comments.house.texas.gov/", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "65d52c5b99", "research_order": 58, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "us-senate-committee-business-commerce", "type": "seat", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "tx", "label": "Texas" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "membership", "type": "membership", "value": "https://senate.texas.gov/cmte.php?c=510", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "623d3da08e11" }, { "id": "public-route", "type": "submission", "value": "https://capitol.texas.gov/Committees/MeetingsByCmte.aspx?Chamber=S&CmteCode=C510", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "a2899e640d7d" } ], "level": "state", "chamber": "Senate", "tags": [ "audit", "law", "record" ], "seats": [ { "role": "chair", "name": "Charles Schwertner", "party": "R", "verified_on": "2026-09-22" } ], "topics": [ "government-use", "work" ], "powers": [ "legislate", "hold-hearings" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:government-use": "SB 1964 (state agency AI)", "topics:work": "committee took up AI and jobs in a hearing week of 21 Sep 2026", "powers:legislate": "Senate committee of referral for TRAIGA (HB 149)", "powers:hold-hearings": "committee took up AI and jobs in a hearing week of 21 Sep 2026" }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-c89ddbe1-a80f-4602-b941-2d54c81e1d0b", "roles": [ "seat" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Senate Committee on Business and Commerce", "ai_jurisdiction": "Senate committee of referral for TRAIGA (HB 149) and holder of the 2026 interim charge to evaluate 'the regulation and use of artificial intelligence systems' under SB 1964 and HB 149, plus data-center growth and grid impacts.", "business": "HB 149 (TRAIGA) — Senate sponsor route; SB 1964 (state agency AI). 2026 interim charges from Lt. Gov. Patrick direct this committee to review AI regulation and data centers ahead of the 90th Legislature (Jan 2027).", "status": "VERIFIED — TRAIGA in force since 1 Jan 2026; interim review under way through 2026 (committee took up AI and jobs in a hearing week of 21 Sep 2026).", "public_route": "YES — the Texas Senate takes public testimony at interim and session hearings. Unlike the House there is no general online comment portal for Senate committees: register to testify with the committee clerk (Annika Vandayar, (512) 463-0365, Sam Houston Building Room 370) and submit written testimony to the clerk in advance, per the notice posted on Texas Legislature Online. Interim hearings are the most accessible moment because the record is open and the committee is actively taking input for 2027 bills.", "agency_route": "Texas Attorney General AI complaint portal — https://consumerprotection.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumercomplaintportal/s/ ; Texas AI Council and AI sandbox at the Department of Information Resources (dir.texas.gov).", "note": "Vice Chair: Phil King. Other 2026 interim AI charges sit with House State Affairs (data centers), House Public Health, House Public Education, House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence, and Senate Economic Development (AI workforce impact).", "routes": { "membership": { "label": "Live membership list" }, "public-route": { "label": "Public submission route" } } }, "meta": { "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "review_by": "2026-12-21", "sources": [ { "url": "https://senate.texas.gov/cmte.php?c=510", "checked": "2026-09-22" }, { "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/Committees/MeetingsByCmte.aspx?Chamber=S&CmteCode=C510", "checked": "2026-09-22" } ], "needs_research": [ "not_topics" ], "legacy_id": "8e40e25c01", "research_order": 59, "migrated_from": "input/data/committees-and-organisations.json#seats" } }, { "id": "us-texas-attorney-general-texas-responsible-artificial", "type": "government", "geo": { "country": "us", "sub": "tx", "label": "Texas, USA" }, "facts": { "routes": [ { "id": "file-ai-complaint-online", "type": "complaint", "value": "https://consumerprotection.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumercomplaintportal/s/", "verified": true, "verification_method": "fetched_source_page", "verified_on": "2026-09-22", "source_id": "f3b642008512" }, { "id": "homepage", "type": "homepage", "value": "https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumer-protection/file-consumer-complaint/consumer-ai-rights", "verified": null, "verification_method": "listed_not_independently_checked", "verified_on": null, "source_id": "936e8fae989b" } ], "region": "United States", "public_input": "open", "tags": [ "harm" ], "topics": [ "discrimination", "government-use", "privacy", "consumer-protection", "transparency" ], "not_topics": [ "frontier-ai" ], "powers": [ "enforce", "fine", "handle-complaints" ], "routing_evidence": { "topics:discrimination": "unlawful discrimination", "topics:government-use": "requires government agencies deploying consumer-facing AI to disclose it", "topics:privacy": "unlawful capture of biometric identifiers", "topics:consumer-protection": "File an AI complaint online (Texas AG consumer protection portal)", "topics:transparency": "requires government agencies deploying consumer-facing AI to disclose it", "not_topics:frontier-ai": "explicitly not frontier or catastrophic risk", "powers:enforce": "The AG has exclusive enforcement", "powers:fine": "civil penalties and injunctive relief", "powers:handle-complaints": "Anyone may file an AI-specific complaint under TRAIGA." }, "routing_review": "drafted", "entity_key": "entity-b4b1c333-2734-427e-9b85-3c6f7a53df2c", "roles": [ "government" ] }, "strings": { "name": "Texas Attorney General — Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA)", "remit": "Enforces TRAIGA, effective 1 January 2026. Prohibits AI developed or deployed to manipulate human behaviour to incite harm, social scoring by government, unlawful capture of biometric identifiers, AI intended to infringe constitutional rights, unlawful discrimination, and certain sexually explicit AI content; requires government agencies deploying consumer-facing AI to disclose it. The AG has exclusive enforcement, with a 60-day cure period, civil penalties and injunctive relief; there is no private right of action. TRAIGA also creates a regulatory sandbox and an AI Council.", "powers_text": "fine", "reality_check": "One of the very few US state routes where an ordinary member of the public can file an AI-specific complaint that lands in an enforcement queue. The Texas AG has stood up a dedicated AI complaint intake and published consumer-facing guidance — a stronger operational posture than most states. But TRAIGA turns on INTENT for most prohibitions, which is a high bar, and the 60-day cure period blunts enforcement. Scope is manipulation, discrimination, biometrics and government use — explicitly not frontier or catastrophic risk.", "notes": "TRAIGA is the template the preemption-minded federal position points to as a preferred state model, so it is less exposed to the December 2025 Executive Order than California's or New York's regimes.", "routes": { "file-ai-complaint-online": { "label": "File an AI complaint online (Texas AG consumer protection portal)", "scope": "Anyone may file an AI-specific complaint under TRAIGA. 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HB 320 (Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy Amendments) also moved in 2026.", "status": "VERIFIED — Utah's model is disclosure-plus-sandbox rather than risk-tiering. The Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy runs an AI Learning Laboratory offering regulatory mitigation agreements to participants.", "public_route": "PARTIAL / CHAIR'S DISCRETION — Utah committee meetings are streamed live and also offered as a virtual meeting with an explicit 'option to provide public comment (at committee chair's discretion)'; to use it you join the virtual meeting and submit your name and email. In-person public comment at the hearing is also at the chair's discretion and time-limited. Utah's session is very short (45 days, Jan–Mar), so contacting the committee analyst (Rohnin Randles) ahead of the bill's hearing is the practical route.", "agency_route": "Utah Division of Consumer Protection, which houses the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy — enforcement of the AI Policy Act and administration of the AI Learning Laboratory. Complaints: https://dcp.utah.gov/complaints/", "note": "Vice Chair: Jason B. Kyle. 15 members (12 R / 3 D). Utah's Rep. 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Contact committee secretary Zoe Adams or analyst Rohnin Randles in advance of the hearing.", "agency_route": "Utah Division of Consumer Protection / Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy — https://dcp.utah.gov/complaints/", "note": "Members: Cullimore, Ipson, McCay, Musselman, Pitcher (D), Sandall, Weiler. 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Youngkin March 2025; would have taken effect 1 July 2026 with exclusive AG enforcement. 2026 session: most AI bills CONTINUED TO 2027 — HB 668 (AI therapy), HB 1294 (police AI disclosure), HB 310 (AI workforce reports), HB 982 (campaign-ad AI disclosure), HB 825 (ticket-resale bots), SB 586 (health-carrier AI claims disclosure, Salim), and Del. Maldonado's children's-chatbot bill. Still advancing in 2026: SB 394 / HB 1186 (Pekarsky/Rasoul) requiring state guidance on AI in schools.", "status": "VERIFIED — Virginia has NO comprehensive AI statute. The 2026 session under Gov. Spanberger largely deferred AI legislation to 2027, with legislators citing the December 2025 federal executive order and its child-safety carve-out. Executive action instead: EXECUTIVE ORDER 22, signed 18 September 2026, creating Virginia's first AI task force (data privacy, cybersecurity, workforce displacement) alongside data-center accountability measures.", "public_route": "YES, and Virginia is unusually low-friction: citizens DO NOT need to register in advance to speak in person at a committee or subcommittee meeting — the chair invites members of the audience to speak. For remote participation the House runs HODSpeak, an online portal through which any member of the public can sign up to give remote testimony on a bill before a House committee. Note Senate subcommittees do not offer remote testimony. Session is short (roughly Jan–Mar), so the window is narrow; the 2027 session is where the continued AI bills return.", "agency_route": "Virginia Attorney General — would have held exclusive enforcement under HB 2094; currently handles AI matters under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumer-protection/index.php/file-a-complaint). Also the new EO 22 AI task force.", "note": "Vice Chair: Irene Shin (D-8). Clerk: Robert Asplund, (804) 698-1946. 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Written statements may be filed with the committee clerk (Eric Bingham).", "agency_route": "Virginia Attorney General consumer complaint — https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumer-protection/index.php/file-a-complaint ; Governor's AI task force under Executive Order 22 (18 Sep 2026).", "note": "Chair and roster verified from the official 2026 Senate Committee Chart (https://apps.senate.virginia.gov/Portal/Resources/Comcal.pdf). 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For any scheduled hearing, any member of the public can (a) sign in PRO / CON / OTHER on a bill in under a minute with no account and no travel — these positions are tallied and reported to the committee; (b) submit written testimony that becomes part of the legislative record; or (c) register to testify remotely by video or in person. Deadline convention: written testimony and position sign-in generally close one hour before the hearing; remote-testimony registration typically closes 24 hours before. Meetings are hybrid by default.", "agency_route": "Washington Attorney General — Consumer Protection Division (https://www.atg.wa.gov/file-complaint); the AG's Office also hosts the statutory Washington State AI Task Force.", "note": "Vice Chair: Shelley Kloba (D-1). Ranking Minority Member: Stephanie Barnard (R-8). Composition 10 D / 3 R. 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