# AI Rules Split by Jurisdiction

The United States, Europe and China keep setting incompatible rules for artificial intelligence, so compliance costs rise, deployment timelines stretch, and the largest platforms capture a growing share of the market by absorbing those fixed costs.

- Conviction: 41 / 100 (strengthening)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-09-14T14:04:09.119Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/trends/ai-governance-divergence
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: United States, Europe, China

## Recent score history

- 2026-09-13: 38
- 2026-09-14: 41

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] BRICS Agrees to Settle More Trade in Its Own Currencies and Link Payment Systems (2026-09-14): Xi Jinping's proposed BRICS open-source AI zone would add a fourth rulemaking pole alongside Washington, Brussels and Beijing's domestic regime, per the New Delhi declaration. A bloc-level open-source carve-out fragments compliance further and widens the gap between jurisdictions that developers must build to.
- [neutral] Amodei Calls for a Slower AI Race, and Altman and Musk Say They Agree (2026-09-13): Amodei's call for eventual international limits on capabilities such as recursive self-improvement, backed verbally by Altman and Musk, is an attempt to route around jurisdictional fragmentation with a single cross-border standard. It does not yet change any national rule, so compliance costs for deployers are unaltered today.

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