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Governance Status Flow
How do governance documents flow from proposal to their final status? This visualization traces 908 documents with known proposal dates from the year they were proposed to whether they were enacted, became defunct, or remain under consideration.
Showing 908 of 1059 governance documents with a known proposal date (sourced from AGORA). Click any node or flow for recent documents.
Source: MIT AI Risk Repository
Key Takeaways
1.360 documents (40%) were enacted, with a median time of 109 days from proposal to enactment.
2.406 documents (45%) became defunct, taking a median of 339 days — substantially longer than the path to enactment.
3.142 documents remain in proposed status, awaiting legislative action.
4.Defunct documents linger ~3x longer than those that get enacted — they sit in limbo before expiring at session end.
