Governing the Machine: The Race to Regulate AI

A timeline tracing how governments moved from vague AI ethics principles to hard institutional machinery: early academic and industry safety warnings, national AI strategies in the 2010s, the EU AI Act and US executive orders, the creation of safety institutes, and now national-security-flavored bodies like the announced 'Super Intelligence Force' headed by an intelligence chief. The through-line is the shift from voluntary guidelines to state power over frontier models. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.