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Singapore’s Model AI Governance Framework is voluntary

The second edition describes the Model Framework as a voluntary, ready-to-use tool.

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What this establishes

Singapore’s approach relies on voluntary frameworks and testing tools rather than an omnibus AI Act.

Why it matters: It is a leading soft-law alternative in the institutional-design debate.

Limits and context: Later agentic-AI factsheets extend the toolkit but do not convert the framework into binding statute.

Model AI Governance Framework (Second Edition) · §2.2

voluntary Model Framework as a general, ready-to-use tool…

The UK white paper and Singapore’s Model Framework both privilege existing regulators or voluntary tools over an early omnibus AI Act.

Issue ready-to-use voluntary frameworks covering explainability, transparency, fairness and human-centric AI use.

Voluntary national framework for organisational AI governance published by IMDA/PDPC.

IMDA published the second edition of the voluntary Model AI Governance Framework.