Timeline
Watch both stacks assemble.
65 DATED EVENTS · 2012 TO 2026 · 2 JURISDICTIONS
The short answer
Singapore started in 2019 with a voluntary framework and has been layering instruments on top ever since. The United States started later, reset in January 2025, and has produced a new executive order roughly every quarter since. Across 65 dated events on this page, exactly one comprehensive AI statute was enacted in either jurisdiction: none.
2012
- SingaporeAdopted2012Binding
Personal Data Protection Act 2012 passed (No. 26 of 2012); main obligations in force 2 Jul 2014
2018
- SingaporeLaunched2018-11-12Supervisory expectation
MAS publishes FEAT Principles for AIDA in the financial sector
2019
- SingaporeLaunched2019-01-23Guidance
2020
- SingaporeFinalised2020-01-22Guidance
MGF 2nd Edition, ISAGO and Compendium of Use Cases launched at WEF Davos
- SingaporeLaunched2020-01-22Guidance
- SingaporeAdopted2020-11-02Binding
2021
- SingaporeAdopted2021-02-01Binding
2022
- SingaporeLaunched2022-05-25Guidance
- SingaporeAdopted2022-10-01Binding
Enhanced financial penalties (10% of Singapore turnover) in force
2023
- United StatesLaunched2023-01-26Guidance
- SingaporeConsultation2023-06-01Guidance
Discussion paper "Generative AI: Implications for Trust and Governance"
- SingaporeLaunched2023-06-07Guidance
AI Verify open-sourced on GitHub; AI Verify Foundation formed
- SingaporeConsultation2023-07-18Guidance
PDPC consults on AI advisory guidelines (18 Jul, 31 Aug 2023)
- SingaporeAdopted2023-10-13Guidance
- United StatesAdopted2023-10-30Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14110: Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
2024
- SingaporeAdopted2024Standard
Enterprise Singapore publishes SS ISO/IEC 42001:2024 (identical adoption; Annex ZA names AI Verify)
- SingaporeConsultation2024-01-16Consultation
Proposed MGF for Generative AI released for public consultation
- SingaporeAdopted2024-02-02Guidance
ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics endorsed at 4th ADGMIN
- SingaporeFinalised2024-03-01Guidance
PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Personal Data in AI Recommendation and Decision Systems issued
- SingaporeLaunched2024-05-29Guidance
Project Moonshot LLM evaluation toolkit launched in open beta
- SingaporeFinalised2024-05-30Guidance
MGF for Generative AI finalised (nine dimensions) after 70+ consultation responses
- SingaporeAdopted2024-06-01Guidance
- United StatesLaunched2024-07-26Guidance
- SingaporeConsultation2024-07-31Guidance
CSA consults on Guidelines on Securing AI Systems (31 Jul, 15 Sep 2024)
- SingaporeLaunched2024-10-15Guidance
CSA launches Guidelines + Companion Guide on Securing AI Systems at SICW
2025
- SingaporeLaunched2025-01-16Guidance
- United StatesAdopted2025-01-20Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14148: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
- United StatesAdopted2025-01-23Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
- SingaporeLaunched2025-02-10Guidance
Global AI Assurance Pilot launched at the Paris AI Action Summit
- SingaporeAdopted2025-03-05Guidance
- United StatesFinalised2025-04-03Binding, sectoral
OMB issues M-25-21 and M-25-22, replacing the earlier federal AI use and acquisition memoranda
- United StatesAdopted2025-04-23Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14277: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth
- SingaporeLaunched2025-05-29Guidance
- United StatesAdopted2025-07-01Binding
- SingaporeLaunched2025-07-07Guidance
- United StatesAdopted2025-07-23Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14318: Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure
- United StatesAdopted2025-07-23Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14319: Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
- United StatesAdopted2025-07-23Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14320: Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack
- United StatesLaunched2025-07-23Guidance
America's AI Action Plan released with three executive orders on the same day
- United StatesAdopted2025-09-30Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14355: Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer With Artificial Intelligence
- SingaporeConsultation2025-10-22Guidance
CSA consults on draft Addendum on Securing Agentic AI Systems (to 31 Dec 2025)
- SingaporeConsultation2025-11-13Consultation
MAS P017-2025: consultation on proposed AI Risk Management Guidelines opens
- United StatesAdopted2025-11-24Binding, sectoral
- SingaporeAdopted2025-12-10Binding
Vietnam National Assembly passes Law on AI No. 134/2025/QH15
- United StatesAdopted2025-12-11Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14365: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
2026
- United StatesLaunched2026-01-09Binding, sectoral
DOJ announces the AI Litigation Task Force created by EO 14365
- SingaporeLaunched2026-01-22Guidance
IMDA launches MGF for Agentic AI v1.0 at WEF Davos, world's first agentic AI governance framework
- SingaporeConsultation2026-01-31Consultation
P017-2025 consultation closes, still not finalised as of 2026-08-17
- United StatesLaunched2026-02-17Guidance
- SingaporeAdopted2026-03-01Binding
Vietnam AI Law enters into force, ASEAN's first binding AI statute
- SingaporeLaunched2026-03-20Guidance
MAS publishes MindForge AI Risk Management Toolkit (Project MindForge phase 2)
- SingaporeLaunched2026-03-20Guidance
- United StatesConsultation2026-03-20Consultation
White House publishes the National Policy Framework, asking Congress to preempt state AI law
- SingaporeLaunched2026-03-24Guidance
ABS posts current edition of GenAI Guardrails Handbook in MAS toolkit launch week
- United StatesConsultation2026-04-07Consultation
NIST releases a concept note for an AI RMF profile for critical infrastructure
- SingaporeFinalised2026-05-20Guidance
MGF for Agentic AI v1.5 update released at ATxSG (60+ organisations' feedback, 10+ case studies)
- SingaporeAdopted2026-05-29Emerging
DEFA negotiations substantially concluded (SEOM 2/57, Manila)
- SingaporeConsultation2026-06-02Consultation
PDPC opens consultation on proposed GenAI advisory guidelines
- United StatesAdopted2026-06-02Binding, sectoral
Executive Order 14409: Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security
- SingaporeConsultation2026-06-10Consultation
MAS P012-2026: proposed amendments to all 11 TRM Notices (closed 31 Jul 2026)
- SingaporeFinalised2026-06-17Guidance
CSA officially publishes Addendum on Securing Agentic AI Systems v1.0
- SingaporeConsultation2026-07-01Guidance
GenAI consultation closes: 40 organisations + 3 individuals respond
- United StatesConsultation2026-07-01Consultation
- SingaporeFinalised2026-07-20Guidance
PDPC issues FINAL GenAI advisory guidelines at the Singapore Data Festival
- SingaporeExpected2026-11-01Emerging
DEFA targeted for signature at the 49th ASEAN Summit (expected, not yet signed)