AI Regulation Map lets you compare AI governance across 196 countries

AI Regulation Map, built by Chilean software engineer Ria, is an interactive platform that tracks AI governance across 196 countries. The project began as a final project for ML4Good Brazil 2024 and was revived this year. Each country is scored 1 to 5 on five dimensions: regulation status (from no engagement to comprehensive cross-sector rules), policy lever (breadth of instruments), enforcement level (from paper rules to routine audits), governance type (central vs. distributed authority), and actor involvement (closed government vs. multi-stakeholder). The first three average into a maturity index, while the latter two are descriptive and will be reshaped into a "Democratic Accountability" dimension. The EU's AI Act currently sets the frontier for regulation status, so countries may see scores drop when global leaders advance.

The tool updates monthly via an automated research pipeline and is fully open source, with all data version-controlled for transparency. Users can click any country to see scores, reasoning, key legislation, and sources, and can compare up to four countries side-by-side. A scatter view lets you plot any two dimensions—for example, enforcement against regulation status—to highlight jurisdictions with laws on paper but little enforcement capacity. Ria, who focuses on software rather than policy, is seeking feedback on the scoring methodology. For compliance teams, researchers, and policymakers, this map fills a critical gap: a single, updated, and standardized view of how every nation approaches AI regulation.