How Frontier AI Is Governed Today
A map of the institutions, actors and mechanisms that shape frontier AI — and the dependencies between them. Each node is rated by teeth: how much it can actually force a frontier lab to do something.
Lens: organized by governance layer, stacked by real enforcement power. The punchline of the map: the layer doing most of the day-to-day safety work (corporate & voluntary) has the least binding power, while the hardest power (executive / national-security) is fast but unaccountable — and almost every mechanism depends on a weaker one beneath it.
Corporate & voluntary
Standards, evals & evidence
National law & executive power
International coordination
Cross-cutting chokepoints