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| Figure/Metric | Value | Source | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total OECD.AI Policy Initiatives | ~2,305 | OECD.AI (March 2026) | Establishes the total database size at the start of Q2. |
| Vietnam Decree/Decision Count | 2 | Mena Report (May 2026) | Confirmed sovereign-level adoptions in the Q2 window. |
| UAE AI Charter/Guide Count | 2 | Arab News Digest (May 2026) | High-probability additions to the “Active” status list. |
| Global AI Adoption Growth Rate | ~110/quarter | Historical Trend (2023-26) | Background rate for total (all status) entries. |
| US Federal AI Regulations (2024) | 59 | Wikipedia Research | Context for the volume of regulatory activity in a single sovereign nation. |
The OECD AI Policy Observatory (OECD.AI) was launched to provide a centralized hub for monitoring global AI governance. Historically, the database has seen a massive influx of entries as nations transitioned from broad ethical principles to concrete regulations. Between May 2023 and March 2026, the database more than doubled in size, growing from ~1,000 to ~2,305 entries. This growth was largely driven by the “National AI Strategy” era (2021-2024). By 2026, the pattern shifted toward “implementation-phase” entries, such as specific decrees and sector-specific guidelines. For example, Japan and Egypt were early leaders in recording 2026-specific guidelines before the Q2 window opened. Previous quarterly net changes for “Adopted” entries typically fluctuate between 2 and 8, as the “Active” status requires a higher bar of formal enactment compared to the “Proposed” or “Planned” categories which make up the bulk of the database’s volume.
My analysis of the net change in the OECD AI Policy Observatory for Q2 2026 is based on a synthesis of historical database growth, specific real-world policy adoptions, and the administrative mechanics of the OECD reporting system.
Historically, the OECD.AI database has shown significant growth, expanding from approximately 1,000 initiatives in May 2023 to 2,305 by late March 2026. This equates to an average quarterly addition of roughly 110 total entries. However, the resolution criteria for this forecast are significantly narrower, focusing exclusively on “Adopted” (or “Active”) status entries for single sovereign jurisdictions. Based on the 2026 taxonomy, “Active” is the functional equivalent used in the dashboard.
In constructing the forecast, I prioritized “inside view” evidence from the current quarter (April 1 to June 30, 2026). Several high-probability entries have been identified:
Offsetting these gains is the notable withdrawal of South Africa’s “Draft National AI Policy” in April 2026 due to academic fabrication concerns. If this draft had been previously listed as “Active” or “Proposed,” its removal would negatively impact the net change.
I weighted the forecast toward a central value of 4.5 entries. This accounts for the 4 confirmed high-probability events in Vietnam and the UAE, plus a modest allowance for reporting from other jurisdictions like Finland (concluding AI Act evaluations by June 30) or Japan. I applied a lower weight to the possibility of a “batch update”—where the OECD updates dozens of entries at once—because many of the 2026 entries for Japan, Malaysia, and Egypt were already visible in the March 31 baseline. The final distribution reflects the high likelihood of a positive but single-digit net increase, constrained by the inevitable reporting lag between national enactment and dashboard reflection.
The question asks how many new “Adopted” (or functionally equivalent “Active/In force”) AI policy entries for a single sovereign country will appear in the OECD AI Policy Observatory during Q2 2026. Both forecasters note the database’s rapid growth—from roughly ~1,000 initiatives in mid‑2023 to ~2,300 by March 2025—implying historical addition rates that would make more than 12 qualifying entries across countries very plausible in any quarter. Gemini3pro_1 estimates ~60 monthly additions overall and therefore places a large probability mass on the >12 bin but adopts a bimodal distribution to allow for a strict interpretation of “Adopted” (hard laws only) or the possibility of no updates during a bulk update cycle, assigning moderate weight to 0 and small counts. Gemini3pro_2 estimates a faster ~90 monthly addition rate, emphasizes that the Observatory is maintained as a live, regularly updated repository, and thus skews probability heavily toward the highest discrete bin (>12, represented as 12.5). In sum, both teams agree the >12 outcome is the most likely, but they differ on tail risk: one explicitly models a nontrivial chance of 0–small counts due to taxonomy or batching, while the other concentrates probability at the maximum bin based on sustained rapid growth.
Forecast: Probability distribution:
We are forecasting the Q2 2026 net change (Mar 31 to Jun 30 snapshots) in OECD.AI policy-initiative rows that (i) are “Adopted” or a functional equivalent status and (ii) are associated with exactly one sovereign country (excluding EU/other supranational jurisdictions). The key uncertainty is not real-world adoptions but OECD.AI database ingestion/curation cadence (often lumpy) and how the “Adopted” concept maps onto the current status taxonomy (one analyst credibly notes the dashboard currently uses “Active”/“Inactive” style labels, so the resolver may treat “Active” as the functional equivalent).
Across analysts, medians range from ~4.5 to ~7, with most mass in single digits and a shared view that negative net change is unlikely (removals/retagging happen but are rare). One analyst allows a much heavier upper tail (>12) via potential batch updates; the others largely keep >12 as a small tail risk. Given (a) we’re mid-quarter (2026-05-13) so there is time for additional updates, (b) OECD.AI is described/observed as a “living” repository with ongoing additions, but (c) the question’s bounds strongly suggest typical quarterly movement is modest for this particular filtered subset, I center the distribution around ~6–7 net additions, keep a meaningful chance of low outcomes (0–2) due to reporting lag/batching, and assign a moderate (but not dominant) 5–10% chance that the filtered count increase is 13+ (i.e., above the market’s upper in-range integers) due to a larger-than-usual ingestion batch or broad status reclassification that nonetheless preserves the adopted-equivalent mapping across snapshots.
Result: a median near 6.2, with the 90th percentile still in-range (11.6) and the 95th percentile placed past the open upper bound (12.9) to express a non-trivial but limited probability of exceeding 12.
An amateur forecast would likely (i) ignore the taxonomy issue (“Adopted” vs “Active”/equivalents) and/or (ii) assume smooth linear additions, producing overconfident single-digit point estimates with thin tails. This forecast explicitly incorporates the main structural uncertainties (status-label mapping and batchy database updates) and therefore widens the distribution in both directions: it keeps a realistic lower tail for “no visible Q2 update in the snapshots” and a calibrated upper tail for “batch update pushes the net change above 12.” Confidence in improvement is moderate: without direct access to the March 31 baseline and current Q2 trajectory, the dominant error mode is mis-estimating OECD’s short-run update lumpiness for the sovereign-only adopted-equivalent subset.
Forecast rationale (numeric):
— Iteration 1 — Across the forecasts, the dominant expectation is a modest positive net increase in “Adopted” entries during Q2 2026, rather than a large swing in either direction. The main reasoning is that OECD AI policy databases are actively maintained living repositories, so routine quarterly updates, backfilling, and occasional curation sprints are more likely to add entries than remove them.
The forecasts broadly agree on a small positive median outcome with a right-skewed distribution: modest gains are most likely, but there is a meaningful chance of larger increases from batch updates or classification changes. At the same time, they keep a thin left tail for slight negative outcomes from cleanup or reclassification.
Summary of Rationales
The rationales broadly anticipate a positive net increase in the number of “Adopted” single-country AI policies, driven by a highly active global regulatory environment. However, forecasters emphasize that the final metric will be heavily influenced by the administrative quirks of the OECD’s database management.
Drivers of Positive Growth (Inflows)
Downward Pressures and Dampeners (Outflows)
Key Uncertainties The primary source of uncertainty is the “lumpy” nature of the OECD’s manual update cadence. If a massive bi-annual batch update successfully hits the dashboard before the end of Q2, it could trigger a massive spike in the net count. Conversely, bureaucratic reporting lags or a scheduled database cleanup could push the net change into negative territory. Consequently, most forecasters predict moderate baseline growth while maintaining wide bounds to account for administrative volatility.
Question: Net change in the number of “Adopted” AI policy entries in the OECD AI Policy Observatory (Q2 2026) Final Prediction: Probability distribution:
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Forecaster 1: Probability distribution:
Forecaster 2: Probability distribution:
The research briefing discusses the net change in “Adopted” AI policy entries in the OECD AI Policy Observatory as of Q2 2026. The OECD AI Policy Observatory serves as a comprehensive database tracking AI policy initiatives from over 80 jurisdictions worldwide, containing more than 1,000 entries as of May 2026. The study highlights a significant acceleration in global AI policy, with legislative mentions increasing by 21.3% across 75 countries in 2024, and notable contributions from various nations, including the U.S. and OECD member countries. Recent additions to the database, such as Cambodia’s National AI Strategy and new regulations from China, indicate ongoing activity and growth in policy adoption.
The research also outlines the estimated growth trajectory of the database, suggesting that the actual number of entries may be higher than reported due to the continuous nature of updates. It estimates that the average quarterly growth rate could yield between 25 to 60 net new entries overall, with a focus on “Adopted” entries from sovereign countries. However, several uncertainties, such as potential batch updates, taxonomy changes, and reporting lags, could affect the accuracy of these counts. The briefing concludes that the net change in qualifying “Adopted” entries during Q2 2026 is likely to be positive, with an expectation of 20 to 70 new entries, centered around 30 to 50.
Sources used:
The OECD AI Policy Observatory (OECD.AI) is a “living repository” tracking AI policy initiatives from more than 80 jurisdictions and organizations worldwide [1][4][9]. As of May 2026, the database contains “over 1,000” AI policy initiatives [8][9]. The platform is continuously updated by official contact points from countries, international organizations, and OECD.AI experts [4].
Global AI policy acceleration:
Recent additions and activity (Q1–Q2 2026):
Institutional momentum:
Database growth trajectory:
Estimated quarterly growth rate:
Analogous growth patterns:
No prediction markets were identified that specifically address the net change in OECD.AI “Adopted” entries for Q2 2026. This is a niche, database-specific metric that is unlikely to attract market-maker attention.
Given the strong global acceleration in AI policy adoption, the active curation of the OECD.AI database, and the multiple new policy entries being added in Q1–Q2 2026 (e.g., Cambodia, China, potentially Latin American countries), a reasonable expectation for the net change in qualifying “Adopted” entries from single sovereign countries during Q2 2026 would likely be in a positive range, probably somewhere between 20 and 70 net new entries, with the central tendency perhaps around 30–50. This is informed by the general growth trajectory of “over 1,000” entries accumulated over ~7 years, the recent acceleration in global AI governance, and the observation that new entries are actively being added during the relevant window. However, exact figures remain highly uncertain without access to precise historical snapshot data.
Looking at this forecasting question, I need to carefully analyze the net change in OECD AI Policy Observatory entries with “Adopted” status from single sovereign countries during Q2 2026.
(a) Time left until outcome known: About 48 days (from May 13 to June 30, 2026)
(b) Outside view - reference class and base rates:
(c) Inside view - key evidence:
(d) Outcome if nothing changed: 0 entries
(e) Outcome if current trend continued: Given the question creator’s range of 0-12 as typical, continuing trends would suggest ~4-8 entries, potentially slightly higher due to recent acceleration.
(f) Expert/market expectations: No prediction markets identified for this specific metric. Question creator’s guidance (0-12) serves as the primary expert anchor.
(g) Low outcome scenario: Database maintenance removes/reclassifies some entries; Q2 adoptions predominantly from supranational bodies (excluded); reporting lag pushes new entries to Q3; net change near 0 or slightly negative.
(h) High outcome scenario: Multiple Latin American countries batch-submit policies following OECD framework; Asian countries add national AI strategies; acceleration in US state-level adoption appears in database; net change exceeds 15-20 entries.
Rationale: I anchor heavily on the question creator’s guidance of 0-12 as the likely range, which suggests they have specific knowledge about database dynamics and what constitutes “Qualifying Entries.” This is substantially lower than the research assistant’s broader estimate because the filters (Adopted status + single sovereign country only) are quite restrictive.
However, I’m shifting slightly toward the higher end of this range given:
I’m placing my median at 6, with about 85% probability between 0-14, allowing for modest upside due to acceleration while respecting the restrictive qualifying criteria.
“ Percentile 0.1: -2 Percentile 1: -0.5 Percentile 5: 0.8 Percentile 10: 1.8 Percentile 20: 3 Percentile 30: 4 Percentile 40: 5 Percentile 50: 6 Percentile 60: 7.5 Percentile 70: 9 Percentile 80: 11 Percentile 90: 14 Percentile 95: 18 Percentile 99: 28 Percentile 99.9: 45 “
Looking at this forecasting question, I need to reconcile the research findings with the question creator’s expected range.
(a) Time remaining: About 1.5 months until Q2 2026 ends (June 30, 2026).
(b) Outside view / base rates:
(c) Inside view:
(d) Outcome if nothing changed: 0 net change
(e) Outcome if current trend continued: Based on question creator’s range and database dynamics, approximately 5-7 net new qualifying entries
(f) Expert/market expectations: No prediction markets identified for this specific metric
(g) Low scenario: Taxonomy reclassification (e.g., “Adopted” relabeled to different status); batch removals/merges of entries; data curation reduces count; reporting lag pushes Q2 adoptions into Q3 snapshot
(h) High scenario: Multiple countries submit batches of newly adopted policies simultaneously; OECD’s Latin America framework catalyzes several new LAC country entries; reporting backlog cleared during Q2
The question creator’s bounds (0-12) carry significant weight as they likely understand typical database dynamics. However, my research indicates genuine acceleration in AI policy globally. I anchor on the question creator’s expected range while allowing for some upside based on the documented policy acceleration.
The median should be around 5-6, representing the middle of the expected range. Negative values are possible but unlikely (taxonomy changes, removals). Values above 12 are possible but represent tail scenarios.
Key adjustments from base rates:
“ Percentile 0.1: -3 Percentile 1: -1 Percentile 5: 0.5 Percentile 10: 1.5 Percentile 20: 3 Percentile 30: 4 Percentile 40: 5 Percentile 50: 6 Percentile 60: 7 Percentile 70: 8 Percentile 80: 9 Percentile 90: 11 Percentile 95: 13 Percentile 99: 18 Percentile 99.9: 25 “
Agent Forecast (discrete, confidence: medium)
Base Rate: OECD AI Policy Observatory grew from ~1,000 entries (May 2023) to 2,305 entries (May 2026): ~109 new entries/quarter across all statuses and jurisdictions. With ~76.5% Active and ~90% sovereign jurisdictions, expected gross qualifying additions are ~75/quarter — far above the 13 threshold even after substantial churn discounts.
Initial Reasoning:
Key Uncertainties:
Evidence Sources (5):
Grounding Facts (passed to reviewers):
Draft: 13+: 72.0%, 0: 5.0%, 12: 3.0%, 10: 2.0%, 11: 2.0%
Reviewer Panel:
Reviewer (reasoning)
The draft relies on aggregate growth rates of total entries to infer quarterly changes in ‘Active’ sovereign‐only policies, conflating gross additions with net change and ignoring status churn. It assumes that new initiatives immediately become Active at the same share as the existing stock without evidence. Historical quarter-to-quarter net changes in Active sovereign entries are not cited, making the 13+ threshold highly speculative.
Objections:
Reviewer (calibration)
The forecast accurately identifies the historical growth trend, but its methodology for estimating the net change in ‘Adopted’ (Active) sovereign country policies is slightly flawed. It applies current proportional filters for ‘Active’ status and sovereign jurisdiction to the overall growth rate of total initiatives, rather than directly estimating the net growth of the specific qualifying category. This approach oversimplifies the dynamic nature of the database, especially regarding the ‘net change’ criteria.
Objections:
Reviewer (fact-checker)
1 factual error(s). 2 unsupported claim(s). Verdict: minor_issues
Unsupported claims:
Objections:
Adjustment Rationale:
Held firm on the core thesis after weighing divergent reviewer signals (15% vs 85%). The reasoning reviewer’s churn concern is valid but doesn’t overturn the conclusion: even with aggressive churn assumptions (e.g., only 30% of ~73 gross qualifying additions yielding net Active growth), the result still exceeds the 13 threshold. The fact-checker’s 87% vs 90% sovereign-share quibble is immaterial to the magnitude conclusion. Made a small upward adjustment (0.72 → 0.75) on ‘13+’ acknowledging the calibration reviewer’s point that historical adoption pace strongly favors clearing the threshold, while retaining 5% on ‘0’ for annulment risk (Wayback Machine rendering failure on JS-heavy OECD.AI dashboard) and ~20% across lower bins for unobserved churn, taxonomy interpretation ambiguity, and the absence of direct snapshot data confirming quarterly net change history.
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Model’s Answer:
This question asks for the net change in “Adopted” status AI policy entries from single sovereign countries between March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026.
Database Context:
Q2 2026 Activity (through May 13):
Critical Observation: Most Q2 2026 dashboard additions are NOT explicitly marked “Adopted” status; they’re in planning/issued/preparation stages.
Assumption 1: The “Adopted” status is strictly applied, meaning only formally passed policies count
Assumption 2: Database update patterns remain consistent with recent quarters
Assumption 3: No major withdrawals or status downgrades beyond South Africa
Given:
The median net change is likely 3-4 entries, reflecting:
I’ll center around a median of approximately 3-4, with:
Given the uncertainty in data access and status definitions, I’m setting wide confidence intervals.
Percentile .1: -5 Percentile 1: -2 Percentile 5: 0 Percentile 10: 1 Percentile 15: 1 Percentile 20: 2 Percentile 25: 2 Percentile 30: 3 Percentile 35: 3 Percentile 40: 3 Percentile 45: 4 Percentile 46: 4 Percentile 47: 4 Percentile 48: 4 Percentile 49: 4 Percentile 50: 4 Percentile 51: 4 Percentile 52: 5 Percentile 53: 5 Percentile 54: 5 Percentile 55: 5 Percentile 60: 6 Percentile 65: 6 Percentile 70: 7 Percentile 75: 8 Percentile 80: 8 Percentile 85: 9 Percentile 90: 10 Percentile 95: 13 Percentile 99: 20 Percentile 99.9: 30
Net integer change in OECD AI Policy Observatory “Adopted” sovereign-country entries between 23:59 UTC March 31, 2026 and 23:59 UTC June 30, 2026.
OECD.AI curation lag and update cadence (0.35): The database is “continuously updated” [S36] but related products update annually [S12]. The time between sovereign adoption and OECD cataloguing is the dominant source of uncertainty — it determines how many real-world Q2 adoptions actually appear in the June 30 snapshot.
Rate of sovereign-country AI policy adoptions during Q2 2026 (0.30): The pipeline of identifiable sovereign adoptions (Greece school framework [S16], Kenya policy [S37], China national drone standards [S23], potential smaller nations) defines the gross additions ceiling.
Retrospective cataloguing of pre-Q2 policies (0.20): The database includes entries from as far back as 2013 [S3], meaning OECD curators may add older “Adopted” entries mid-quarter, creating positive net change independent of real Q2 adoptions.
Removal/status downgrade frequency (0.10): Entry removals or status changes from “Adopted” to another status could compress net change toward zero or negative. No historical frequency data found.
Technical resolution mechanics (0.05): Wayback Machine failures could cause annulment [S1], but this affects resolution modality rather than the conditional numeric value.
As of May 13, 2026 (~44 days into the 91-day Q2 window):
No baseline count for March 31 is confirmed; the Wayback snapshot was partial [S11].
Cloudlike-to-mixed. The question involves a database governed by human curation decisions with variable latency, overlaid on an ongoing global policy wave. It is poorly suited to precise base-rate anchoring because: (a) no quarterly snapshot history was recovered [S5-S7], (b) the database is a living repository with idiosyncratic update patterns, (c) the 91-day window includes ~48 unobserved future days with meaningful sovereign AI policy activity globally.
Wrong class: “International AI governance progress” or “global policy adoption rates in general” — this would anchor estimates on macro-level AI strategy counts (70 countries with national strategies [S37]) and imply high absolute change.
Better class: Quarterly database update increments for a specific curated government-policy registry with human-update cadence and retrospective cataloguing. The closest analogue is the OECD.AI Policy Navigator’s own prior quarterly deltas — but these are unobserved.
Reference class quality: Fabricated (0–1 real comparables). I cannot compute a reliable base rate. I anchor instead on: (a) the 3–5 identifiable new entries, (b) the ~48 unobserved remaining days, and (c) the judgment that curators add more than they remove in any given quarter for an expanding database.
Discrete integer outcome; right-skewed (lower floor from minimal gross removals in an expanding database; upper tail from batch curation events and unobserved sovereign adoptions). A Poisson or negative-binomial family is most appropriate, reflecting count data with overdispersion. The right tail is fatter than the left due to upside surprises (batch updates, untracked sovereign adoptions in low-media-coverage regions).
| Scenario | World state | Weight | Central value | Within-scenario range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net negative/zero: Removals and lag dominate | Curation lag >3 months, 1–2 entries removed/downgraded, few Q2 adoptions catalogued | 0.10 | 0 | -3 to 1 |
| Minimal addition (1–2 entries) | Only 1–2 identifiable entries get catalogued (e.g., Greece only); Kenya and China miss the deadline | 0.20 | 2 | 1 to 3 |
| Moderate addition (3–6 entries) | Greece + Kenya + 1–3 untracked sovereigns; normal curation cadence | 0.40 | 4 | 3 to 6 |
| Active quarter (7–10 entries) | Batch update includes retrospective cataloguing of 2025-adopted policies + Q2 real additions; several developing-nation policies | 0.20 | 8 | 7 to 11 |
| High-volume batch (12+ entries) | Major OECD curation push; 10+ developing and mid-size sovereign nations’ 2025–2026 policies catalogued simultaneously | 0.10 | 14 | 12 to 20 |
Weighted average: 0.10×0 + 0.20×2 + 0.40×4 + 0.20×8 + 0.10×14 = 0 + 0.4 + 1.6 + 1.6 + 1.4 = 5.0
This is consistent with a central estimate of ~5, appropriately above the 3–5 identifiable entries, reflecting untracked additions and retrospective cataloguing.
58 days remain. Halving to 29 days: only clearly identified entries (Greece) would have materialized; estimate drops to ~2–3. Doubling to 116 days: more sovereign adoptions, possibly 7–9. The estimate is moderately timeframe-sensitive, confirming the remaining window matters.
Percentile 1: -4 Percentile 5: -1 Percentile 10: 1 Percentile 20: 2 Percentile 40: 4 Percentile 60: 6 Percentile 80: 9 Percentile 90: 12 Percentile 95: 15 Percentile 99: 22
I’ll work through this systematically.
Net change in “Adopted” sovereign-country AI policy entries in OECD AI Policy Observatory between March 31 and June 30, 2026.
OECD.AI curation lag and update frequency (0.35): The database is “continuously updated” but the Index updates annually [S12, S36]. How quickly real-world adoptions get catalogued is the dominant uncertainty.
Volume of sovereign AI policies formally adopted in Q2 2026 (0.30): Actual legislative/policy activity in April-June 2026 determines the ceiling of possible additions. Research identified Greece’s school AI framework [S16], Kenya’s pending policy [S37], possible Chinese national standards [S23] as candidates.
Historical quarterly addition rate (0.20): Unknown directly, but the database covers “80+ jurisdictions” [S33] with entries dating back to 2013, suggesting a large existing base with incremental additions.
Entry removals/status changes (0.10): Policies can be removed or downgraded; net change can be negative.
Technical resolution mechanics (0.05): JS-heavy SPA archives poorly [S4, S11]; CSV fallback may be needed.
Cloudlike — This is a database curation question with unknown update cadence, no historical quarterly data, and a JS-heavy SPA that archives poorly. Poor fit for base-rate anchoring.
Wrong class: “number of AI laws passed globally per quarter” — this conflates real-world adoption with database curation. Better class: “quarterly net change in a specific living policy database with known curation lag” — but this reference class is fabricated (0-1 real comparables found).
Thin to fabricated — No historical quarterly snapshots were retrieved [S5, S6, S7]. Cannot compute a reliable base rate.
This is a count variable (discrete integers) with a likely right skew. A Poisson or negative binomial distribution is appropriate. Given the database has hundreds of entries and the question bounds suggest typical changes of 0-12, a Poisson with λ ≈ 3-6 seems reasonable. The distribution should be right-skewed (more probability above 0 than below, since net removals are less common than additions in a growing database).
Scenario 1: Minimal curation activity (weight: 0.20)
Scenario 2: Moderate steady-state additions (weight: 0.45)
Scenario 3: Active curation quarter (weight: 0.25)
Scenario 4: Net negative or zero (weight: 0.10)
Weighted average: 0.20×1 + 0.45×4 + 0.25×8 + 0.10×0 = 0.20 + 1.80 + 2.00 + 0 = 4.0
This is consistent with a moderate quarterly addition rate for a living database.
58 days remain. If the window were halved (29 days), I’d shift the distribution left by ~1-2 units. Doubled, I’d shift right by ~2-3 units. The estimate is moderately timeframe-sensitive.
Percentile 1: -4 Percentile 5: -1 Percentile 10: 0 Percentile 20: 1 Percentile 40: 3 Percentile 60: 5 Percentile 80: 8 Percentile 90: 11 Percentile 95: 14 Percentile 99: 20
The target variable is the net change in “Adopted” AI policy entries for single sovereign countries in the OECD AI Policy Observatory between March 31, 2026, and June 30, 2026.
As of May 13, 2026, we are midway through the resolution window. Several sovereign actions are poised for entry: Greece’s school AI framework [S16], Kenya’s national policy [S37], and potentially Japan’s March 31 guidelines [S3] if they weren’t captured in the Q1 baseline. Conversely, US state laws (Colorado, Connecticut) and EU-level agreements (Digital Omnibus) are explicitly excluded [S1, S15, S19].
The system is mixed. While policy adoption is narrative-driven, the OECD’s data entry process likely follows a administrative cadence.
The baseline count as of March 31 is the primary unknown. If the baseline is ~300 entries, a 1-2% quarterly growth yields 3-6 new entries. The most likely scenario for a “wrong” forecast is a “batch update” where the OECD processes a large backlog of national reports simultaneously, causing a spike (e.g., +15).
With 48 days left in the window, the “observed” adoptions are likely already finalized in the real world; the remaining uncertainty is primarily the OECD’s processing speed. If the window were doubled, the probability of a “batch update” would increase significantly.
The distribution is expected to be right-skewed (Poisson-like for discrete additions), with a floor near zero (net negative is possible but rare for a “living repository” of growing technology).
Percentile 1: -1 Percentile 5: 0 Percentile 10: 1 Percentile 20: 2 Percentile 40: 3 Percentile 60: 5 Percentile 80: 7 Percentile 90: 10 Percentile 95: 12 Percentile 99: 15
As of May 13, 2026, the OECD.AI Policy Navigator describes itself as a live database updated regularly by official country contact points and OECD analysts, and the all-initiatives dashboard shows 2,305 total policy initiatives. The current dashboard taxonomy uses statuses including “Proposed or under development,” “Active,” “Inactive – initiative complete,” and “Inactive – initiative not initiated”; on individual policy pages, items that are clearly already issued or in force are labeled “Active.” For forecasting this question, I therefore treat “Active” as the current functional equivalent of “Adopted,” consistent with the question’s allowance for functional equivalents. (oecd.ai)
I could not directly reconstruct the exact March 31, 2026 Wayback snapshot within this workflow, so I used a conservative lower-bound method: count only rows that I could directly verify were added after March 31 and were both single-country and Active. By manual tally, I verified at least 22 such qualifying additions already entered after Q1: Côte d’Ivoire (22 Apr), Nigeria (22 Apr), Ethiopia (23 Apr), Dominican Republic (24 Apr), Australia (27 Apr), Singapore ECI (28 Apr), Thailand LANTA (28 Apr), Saudi Arabia HumAIn (28 Apr), Peru Adetop (28 Apr), Singapore MERaLiON (29 Apr), Peru SOFIA (29 Apr), Canada SCIP (5 May), United States NAIRR (6 May), United Kingdom Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (6 May), France Council for AI and Digital Technology (6 May), Japan AI Guidelines for Business (6 May), India AI Mission (6 May), Japan Roadmap for Smart City Initiatives (6 May), Finland National Roadmap for Data Centres (6 May), South Africa National Cloud and Data Policy (6 May), Chile ProChile export-promotion line (6 May), and U.S. OMB Memorandum M-25-22 (6 May). That means the running Q2 net change is already at least +22 unless offset by a very large number of removals or status downgrades. (oecd.ai)
The visible pattern is bursty backfilling and addition by national contact points rather than one-by-one legislative tracking: there are clear waves on April 22–29, 2026 and again on May 5–6, 2026, and OECD says the database is updated regularly by official contributors. I saw no comparable evidence of mass deletions. For the final Q2 net change to end up at 12 or less, roughly ten or more qualifying removals or reclassifications would need to offset the conservative +22 floor I already verified. That is possible, but it looks unlikely. The more important uncertainty is how many additional national Active rows will be added before June 30, 2026; another modest wave would push the final number comfortably into the high 20s or 30s. (oecd.ai)
My point forecast is 30. I am anchoring on the conservative verified floor of +22, then adding a modest allowance for qualifying additions since March 31 that I likely did not observe in this limited sample, plus further additions between May 13 and June 30, while subtracting a small allowance for removals or reclassifications. Because the requested probability array collapses every outcome above 12 into a single bucket, almost all of my probability mass ends up in the >12 bin; the residual mass below that is mainly a hedge against hidden snapshot or rendering issues, unusually aggressive taxonomy cleanup, or multiple qualifying removals. (oecd.ai)
OECD describes the Policy Navigator as a live database updated regularly by official national contact points and OECD.AI experts. On the current policy-initiatives page, the available status labels are Proposed or under development, Active, Inactive – initiative complete, and Inactive – initiative not initiated; the current list shows 2,305 initiatives overall. Because the resolution criteria ask for Adopted or a functional equivalent, I treat Active as the closest current equivalent for entries that have been formally issued or are in force, while recognizing some edge-case ambiguity for programmes and projects. (oecd.ai)
The strongest signal is that Q2 2026 has already seen a noticeable batch of new single-country Active entries added to the database. Examples include Ethiopia’s National Artificial Intelligence Policy added 23 April 2026, Australia’s Policy for the responsible use of AI in government added 27 April, Singapore’s Enterprise Compute Initiative added 28 April, Thailand’s LANTA Supercomputer added 28 April, Canada’s AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program added 5 May, the United States’ NAIRR entry added 6 May, the United Kingdom’s Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 entry added 6 May, France’s Council for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology entry added 6 May, and Australia’s AI and Cyber Risk Model Clauses entry added 6 May. All of these are country-specific and shown as Active, so they are conservative evidence that the qualifying count has already risen materially during Q2. (oecd.ai)
At the same time, not every new Q2 addition counts toward resolution. Newly added entries such as Lesotho’s Artificial Intelligence Policy and Implementation Plan, Malaysia’s AI Technology Action Plan 2026–2030, and Greece’s National Supercomputer DAEDALUS entry are explicitly marked Proposed or under development, so they would not qualify under an Adopted-or-Active interpretation. That keeps me from extrapolating the full raw addition pace directly into qualifying additions. (oecd.ai)
My practical model is: first, start from a conservative observed lower bound of roughly 9 qualifying Q2 additions already visible by mid-May from the cited examples; second, assume there are some additional qualifying Q2 additions already in the live database that I have not exhaustively enumerated; and third, allow for one more smaller batch of country-level Active additions before 30 June 2026, while assigning only a small probability to removals or status downgrades because the database appears to be expanding and curated continuously rather than shrinking. That pushes my median forecast into the low-to-mid teens, with the greater-than-12 bucket as the single most likely outcome. This is an inference from the observed update pattern, not a direct OECD count for the exact resolution dates. (oecd.ai)
Accordingly, I place only a very small chance on zero or negative net change, substantial mass on outcomes from about 8 to 12, and the largest single probability on outcomes above 12. The distribution implies an expected net change in the mid-teens, but with meaningful uncertainty because OECD’s updates are clearly lumpy and because the exact resolver will use Wayback or official snapshot evidence on 31 March 2026 and 30 June 2026 rather than the live page visible today. (oecd.ai)
OECD describes the Policy Navigator as a live database updated regularly by official national contact points and OECD.AI experts, and the all-initiatives dashboard currently lists 2,305 entries. Individual initiative pages expose Added on, Updated on, and Status fields, so late database backfills matter a lot here because the question resolves on dashboard state, not on the real-world adoption date of the underlying policy. (oecd.ai) Conservatively, I can already verify at least 10 single-country Active entries that were added after 31 March 2026 and before 13 May 2026: Australia’s Policy for the responsible use of AI in government (27 Apr), Thailand’s LANTA Supercomputer (28 Apr), Singapore’s Enterprise Compute Initiative (28 Apr), the UK AI Research Resource (28 Apr), Canada’s Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy (28 Apr), Canada’s AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program (5 May), Chile’s Latam-GPT (5 May), Korea’s AI Hub (5 May), the UK Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (6 May), and Japan’s AI Guidelines for Business (6 May). (oecd.ai) That floor is probably too low. On today’s first dashboard page, 15 of the 20 visible items are sovereign-country entries rather than supranational ones, and many of the sovereign entries I checked were all added on 6 May 2026, including the NIST AI RMF, UK AI Procurement Guidelines, Australia’s AI and Cyber Risk Model Clauses, France’s AI council, IndiaAI Mission, Finland’s data-centre roadmap, Singapore’s PDPA item, South Africa’s cloud/data policy, Chile’s ProChile line, and the U.S. OMB memo. This looks like a Q2 ingestion/backfill wave, not just a trickle of genuinely new policies. (oecd.ai) The main downside risk is cleanup, deduplication, or some May additions ultimately not counting as functional equivalents of Adopted; the main upside risk is another late-quarter batch before 30 June. Given the already-visible Q2 additions, I think the final net change is now overwhelmingly likely to be above 12, so I put 96.075% on >12 and leave most of the remaining mass in 10–12 as a hedge against reclassification risk. (oecd.ai)
I treated the current OECD status label “Active” as the closest functional equivalent of “Adopted”. The clearest evidence is that a clearly not-yet-passed Australian bill is labeled “Proposed or under development”, while formally enacted or issued items such as Australia’s deepfake bill, the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, and NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework are labeled “Active”. So my forecast is effectively about the net Q2 change in single-country entries that are Active, while acknowledging some residual ambiguity about whether “Inactive – initiative complete” should partly count under some resolver interpretations. (oecd.ai)
Two structural points matter more here than real-world legislative calendars. First, OECD describes the navigator as a live database updated regularly by official national contact points and OECD experts. Second, the current all-initiatives page shows 2,305 total policy initiatives, so quarter-to-quarter movement can come from OECD backfilling and curation as well as from genuinely new policy adoption. (oecd.ai)
That backfilling behavior is visible in Q2 2026 already. Côte d’Ivoire’s National AI Strategy was added on April 22, 2026 and is Active. The Dominican Republic’s ENIA appears in the current Active national-strategy filter and was added on April 24, 2026. Australia’s policy for the responsible use of AI in government was added on April 27, 2026 and is Active. Singapore’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, Thailand’s LANTA Supercomputer, and Saudi Arabia’s HumAIn were added on April 28, 2026 and are Active. Canada’s AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program and Korea’s AI Hub were added on May 5, 2026 and are Active. France’s Council for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology, the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, the U.S. NAIRR, and the U.S. NIST AI RMF were added on May 6, 2026 and are Active. (oecd.ai)
Several of those examples were not newly enacted in 2026, which is exactly why I think database-ingestion dynamics dominate this question. Australia’s page says its policy was enacted in September 2024 but only added on April 27, 2026; the UK act was enacted in June 2025 but added on May 6, 2026; NIST AI RMF was released in 2023 but added on May 6, 2026. That means the June 30 count can keep rising even if the real-world pace of fresh AI policymaking slows, simply because OECD is still adding older but qualifying entries. (oecd.ai)
As a scale anchor, the current Active National–Strategy slice alone contains 60 entries. That does not tell us the exact total qualifying stock across all national categories, but it does show that the active national universe is already sizable and that a handful of late-April/early-May additions can move the quarterly net-change number materially even before accounting for regulations, governance bodies, and projects. (oecd.ai)
My numerical model is therefore simple: I use the currently verified Q2 additions as a lower bound already in hand by May 13, then add a moderate continuation term for May 14 through June 30, and subtract a small allowance for recategorization, deduping, or status reclassification. On that basis, I think the most likely outcome is a net increase in the mid-teens, and the modal bucket in the required discretization is “>12”. I still leave meaningful mass on 7-12 because the search-accessible evidence is incomplete and because resolution depends on archived snapshots or fallback exports rather than the live page alone. This last step is an inference from observed update cadence, not a directly published OECD statistic. (oecd.ai)
The key framing issue is taxonomy. The current OECD.AI Policy Navigator is a live database updated by national contact points and OECD analysts; the all-initiatives page currently lists 2,305 initiatives and uses status labels such as ‘Proposed or under development’, ‘Active’, and two inactive categories, rather than the older ‘Adopted’ label. So for this forecast I treat ‘Active’ as the most plausible functional equivalent of ‘Adopted’ for the March 31 and June 30, 2026 snapshots. An active-only filter for the national-strategy category alone currently returns 60 entries, which confirms that the active national stock is already substantial. (oecd.ai)
The biggest signal is not real-world policy adoption dates, but OECD curation cadence. A number of rows describing policies from 2023-2025 were only added to OECD.AI in late April or early May 2026. That means the Q2 net change is likely to be driven heavily by backfilling and database updates, which still count under the stated resolution rules because the question resolves off the dashboard snapshot, not the real-world adoption date. Examples include Ethiopia’s 2024 National Artificial Intelligence Policy added on 23 April 2026, the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 added on 6 May 2026, and NIST’s AI RMF added on 6 May 2026 despite being a 2023 framework. (oecd.ai)
I can directly verify a lower bound of roughly nine clearly qualifying additions after March 31. In the active national-strategy bucket, active entries now include Indonesia, Benin, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, and Côte d’Ivoire; their individual pages show OECD added them on 28 April, 27 April, 24 April, 23 April, and 22 April 2026 respectively. Outside strategy, clearly active sovereign-country additions after March 31 include Canada’s AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program (5 May), France’s Council for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology (6 May), the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (6 May), and the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource entry (6 May). (oecd.ai)
There are also several additional late-April/early-May entries that are probably qualifying and would push the total well above that lower bound, including Australia’s policy for the responsible use of AI in government (27 April), Saudi Arabia’s HumAIn (28 April), the U.S. Stargate Project (28 April), Singapore’s Enterprise Compute Initiative (28 April), and Thailand’s AI for Thai platform (28 April). I did not fully rely on all of these in the strict lower bound because not every search-result snippet exposed the status field as clearly as the entries above. (oecd.ai)
I also discounted visible non-qualifiers. Malaysia’s AI Technology Action Plan 2026-2030 is explicitly marked ‘Proposed or under development’, so it should not count. Likewise, Greece’s DAEDALUS supercomputer entry is explicitly marked proposed. This matters because it shows that not every new Q2 row is automatically a qualifying +1. (oecd.ai)
Putting this together: the evidence already supports a meaningful positive Q2 increase, and the main remaining uncertainty is whether the late-April/early-May batch continues through June and how many surfaced rows fail the exact qualifying test of being both active and associated with exactly one sovereign country. My base case is therefore in the high teens, with a central estimate around 17. I assign most probability mass to outcomes above 12, but I keep a noticeable 8-12 tail because my search-based evidence is incomplete and the resolution standard is stricter than a casual count of new OECD pages. The code implements this as a three-scenario mixture centered on about 17 net additions, with only a small probability of zero or negative change. (oecd.ai)