Desk roadmap

Topic catalog

Live topics have in-house question pages backed by evidence. Queued topics are tracked for source-backed seeding and are not published as empty claims.

Live on the record

Content integrity · critical

Should AI-generated content be labelled?

Governments require disclosure in different forms. Technical duties, responsible actors and enforcement models still diverge.

Frontier safety · critical

Should frontier models face mandatory evaluations?

Evaluation language is widespread in policy texts. Thresholds, evaluators and legal consequences remain contested.

Compute & energy · critical

Should AI data centres face growth controls?

Electricity, water, local consent and national competitiveness are turning compute infrastructure into a policy fight.

Multilateral standards · high

Should intergovernmental AI principles guide national rules?

Soft-law instruments such as the OECD AI Recommendation supply shared definitions that many jurisdictions then incorporate, revise or ignore.

Ethics & rights · high

Should states implement UNESCO’s AI ethics recommendation?

UNESCO’s 2021 recommendation is a global ethics standard; the open policy question is how far states turn its principles into domestic duties.

Multilateral standards · critical

Should states join binding AI human-rights treaties?

The Council of Europe Framework Convention is open for signature. The live dispute is ratification and domestic effect, not whether a treaty text exists.

Geopolitics & compute · critical

Should advanced AI chips face export controls?

US export controls already treat advanced computing integrated circuits as regulated items. The dispute is scope, partners and effectiveness.

Institutional design · high

Should states prefer AI promotion statutes to horizontal bans?

Japan’s Act No. 53 of 2025 promotes AI development and directs guidelines. Whether that model outcompetes bans-heavy statutes remains contested.

Content integrity · high

Should watermarking standards be mandatory?

Open provenance standards such as C2PA already exist. The dispute is whether law should require them or leave adoption voluntary.

Institutional design · high

Should sector regulators own AI rules instead of a horizontal act?

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

Queued for seeding

These disputes are catalogued for collection. They stay here until primary documents and evidence passages support an in-house page.

Intellectual property · critical · queued

Should training data face copyright transparency rules?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Open source · high · queued

Should open-weight models face special rules?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Surveillance · high · queued

Should remote biometric identification be banned in public spaces?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Labour · high · queued

Should AI hiring tools face bias audits?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Health · high · queued

Should AI medical devices follow special approval paths?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Liability · high · queued

Should AI systems carry product liability?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Elections · critical · queued

Should political deepfakes face election-specific rules?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Platform liability · high · queued

Should platforms be liable for AI-generated harm?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Safety ops · high · queued

Should AI incident reporting be mandatory?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Accountability · high · queued

Should AI whistleblowers get legal protection?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Government use · standard · queued

Should public procurement require AI assurances?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Agents · critical · queued

Should autonomous AI agents face lifecycle governance?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Compute & energy · high · queued

Should data-centre water use be disclosed?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Compute & energy · high · queued

Should grids prioritise or constrain AI loads?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Security · critical · queued

Should military AI face human-control rules?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Child safety · high · queued

Should children get special AI protections?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Competition · high · queued

Should AI competition remedies target model or data access?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Investment screening · standard · queued

Should national-security reviews cover AI investment?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Environment · standard · queued

Should AI environmental impact be assessed before deployment?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Misuse · high · queued

Should foundation-model APIs face know-your-customer rules?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Media · standard · queued

Should synthetic media in newsrooms be labelled?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

Education · standard · queued

Should AI education tools face pedagogy and privacy rules?

Awaiting primary documents and evidence before a question page is published.

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