AI Governance Timeline

AI Timeline, 1943 to 2026

On the left, what people built or proposed. On the right, the warnings, refusals, laws and rulings that answered it.

A line joins two cards only where a source says one led to the other, and each card names that source. A response can feed back into what gets built next, so lines run in both directions.

Cause: built or proposed Response: warned, refused, ruled Aprimary record read Bscholarly or news account Xcontested

Quotations are copied from the source named in each card. Dates and figures are checked against the linked source. Background: the Regulatory Crossroads intro frame with its text removed.

Era 1 for your approval

Era 0 prologue added (4 entries, 1455 to 1710) ahead of Era 1 (12 entries, 1943 to 1955). Every Era 0 entry is graded B: I read the British Library page, Ronan Deazley's commentaries and Jeff Jarvis's Senate testimony, not the charter or the Acts. Three lines join Era 0 cards, each from a sentence in Deazley. Four lines join Era 1 cards. Voice scan by hand and by script: pass.

Decisions taken on the recommended answers

Era 0 is the prologue you approved. The main timeline still starts at 1943, so this is the one change to your 17 October scope ruling.

No line joins the Gutenberg letter to the 1557 charter: none of the sources I opened states that link, so it stays out.

Llull (1274 to 1308) is left out. The Stanford Encyclopedia entry describes his Art as a combining logical system and does not link it to computing.

The Statute of Anne card carries Jeff Jarvis's 2024 testimony as his claim, quoted. Deazley's commentary supports only the Stationers' petition.

Cards and buttons follow the AI Governance Toolkit card you sent: navy panels, cyan for cause, magenta for response, the bordered boxes as the controls and the buttons inside each slide-out.

Cybernetics moved to the cause lane. Wiener's warnings in it stay in the card text, and both of its lines run to responses.

The Human Use of Human Beings card now names Père Dubarle as a Dominican friar who reviewed Cybernetics, as Wiener's own text says, which gave two of the four lines.

Working title, one picture per entry after approval, no era buttons, no SAFe® entries without your facts: unchanged from the last draft.

What I need from you

Approve the 4 Era 0 entries and 3 lines, and the 12 Era 1 entries and 4 lines, or name the card or line to change.