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Southeast Asia

Regional

ASEAN-wide profile for regional AI governance implementation. PR2E adds source-backed voluntary guidance, a generative-AI guide expansion, the Bangkok Digital Declaration, and a Malaysia official ASEAN AI Safe announcement while holding roadmap/search-snippet claims pending direct text.

Government posture

Regional posture remains coordination-first. The strongest official evidence supports voluntary guidance, political declarations, working-group responsibilities, and network announcements rather than supranational enforcement or delegated regulatory power.

Standards and evaluation

Regional documents increasingly reference AI governance, safety, laws, regulations, and standards, but they do not by themselves prove regional testing infrastructure or binding conformance obligations.

Research ecosystem

Regional research and STI implementation remains lightly sourced in this import because the COSTI/AMMSTI evidence note was held as search-snippet based.

International engagement

ASEAN AI Safe is represented as a regional network initiative supported by a Malaysia official announcement; public governance details and operational work plans remain incomplete.

Seed entities

ASEAN Working Group on AI Governance

Regional
Working GroupTier 1Needs primary

ASEAN regional working group on AI governance. The Bangkok Digital Declaration directly supports a coordination remit that includes AI policy, governance, safety, laws, regulations, and standards, but does not establish supranational regulatory authority.

Ai GovernancePolicy RegulationCapacity BuildingInternational Dialogue
Confidence: HighVerified: 2026-06-06

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Regional
Dialogue ConvenorTier 1

Regional intergovernmental organization represented here only for source-backed ASEAN AI governance coordination: the 2024 voluntary AI governance guide, the 2025 generative-AI expansion, the Bangkok Digital Declaration, and a Malaysia official ASEAN AI Safe announcement. Held roadmap and search-snippet claims are not treated as operational evidence.

Ai GovernancePolicy RegulationInternational DialogueCapacity Building
Confidence: HighVerified: 2026-06-06

ASEAN AI Safety Network

Regional
Policy ProgramTier 1Needs primary

Regional AI safety network initiative supported here by a Malaysia official announcement. The atlas does not treat it as an operational testing network until ASEAN publishes public implementation details.

Ai GovernanceInternational DialogueCapacity Building
Confidence: MediumVerified: 2026-06-06

Open questions

  • Public terms of reference, secretariat arrangement, work plan, or membership rules for ASEAN AI Safe.
  • Whether a final public full-text PDF of the ASEAN Responsible AI Roadmap is available on an official site.
  • How the ASEAN Working Group on AI Governance interacts with ADGSOM, COSTI, and other sectoral bodies in practice.