2026-06
US executive order on AI security
System security requirements move into enforcement.
Branches · GOVERNANCE
Rules of the game
Governments started writing laws about what AI may and may not do and who answers for mistakes. It is both a brake on the industry and the condition for market access.
AI governance moved from declarations into operating mode: requirements, audits, reporting, fines. Deadlines and boundaries keep shifting.
Status
TypeBranches
Marker
What exists today7
Researched
In progress
2026-08-02
AI Act: the main deadline
High-risk requirements and transparency obligations take effect. Fines reach €35M or 7% of global turnover.
сейчас
Chips as foreign policy
Access to advanced accelerators remains an export-control instrument: the geography of compute is not set by the market.
Planned
2026-12-02
New prohibitions
Systems generating intimate imagery of an identifiable person without consent join the prohibited list.
2027-12-02
Annex III delayed
Stand-alone high-risk systems — hiring, scoring, biometrics, justice, borders — moved from August 2026 to December 2027.
в планах
Capacity to evaluate
Europe plans its own pre-market model evaluation capacity, expected to be operational around 2027.
Distant horizons
впереди
An international regime
The equivalent of non-proliferation treaties for systems above a capability threshold. Neither a body nor a verification mechanism exists.
Branches off
To the line