Is anyone prohibiting ASI?
The world has produced laws, institutes, summits and voluntary pledges. Almost none of it stops a lab from building superintelligence. This tracker maps the major moves so you can see the gap, including what China has actually written down.
The most common argument against slowing down is: “It doesn't matter what we do, China will race ahead.” The record complicates that story. China issued binding rules on recommendation algorithms, deepfakes and generative AI before most Western governments, published a national AI Safety Governance Framework, and its scientists have signed international statements calling for AI “red lines.”
None of this means China is a benign actor, or that its rules prohibit ASI. They do not. It means the premise that China is uninterested in any rules is empirically weak, and a weak premise is a bad reason to race. Filter to China above to see the record, and read our full China myth analysis.
This is a curated list of the most significant ASI-governance milestones, not an exhaustive legal database. The point of listing them is to show how much activity still leaves the central act unregulated: building superintelligence.
Governance moves fast, if you spot something we've missed or that needs updating, tell us.