Tyche Institute · AI-governance observability

Who can even see the AI they govern?

A 10-indicator public-evidence instrument across 250 jurisdictions measures whether public records reveal the governance machinery — legal basis, competent authority, registers, identity & trust, lifecycle evidence — that lets an auditor, court, buyer, journalist or citizen trace AI-agent use. Across the EU-27 the mean is 59.4/100: the technical plumbing is strong, the public record is thin.

Jurisdictions scored250EU-27 reported in depth below
Indicators10I01–I10, each 0–3 public-evidence scale, weighted to 100
EU-27 mean59.4/100 raw · 56.3 confidence-adjusted
World mean41.2/100 across all 250 jurisdictions

The plumbing is there; the public record is not

A visibility paradox

The EU-27 score highest on technical trust (92/100 — identity, PKI, cybersecurity baselines) but lowest on public inventory (42/100). States have the trust machinery; few publish the registers that would let anyone see the algorithms in use.

Visibility is uneven

Of 27 member states, only 3 reach class A (visible governability); 13 are structured-but-incomplete (B), 8 fragmented-but-observable (C), and 3 show only thin visibility (D). The map is lumpy, not uniform.

The agentic blind spot

The index measures whether the state itself could trace AI-agent action from legal basis to lifecycle evidence. Even the strongest member states leave the agent layer — who acted, under whose authority, on what evidence — largely outside the public record.

Where observability concentrates

55Law & authority42Public inventory92Technical trust63Evidence lifecycle57Learning channels

Observability across the EU-27

#Member stateScoreClassLaw/authPub. inv.Tech. trust
1France76.7A6767100
2Netherlands76.7A678783
3Slovenia76.7A8067100
4Germany71.7B6747100
5Spain71.7B676783
6Greece68.3B6767100
7Denmark66.7B6747100
8Portugal66.7B4747100
9Sweden66.7B6747100
10Estonia65.0B5347100
11Finland65.0B5367100
12Czechia63.3B6747100
13Italy63.3B6747100
14Poland61.7B6733100
15Austria60.0B674783
16Luxembourg60.0B6727100
17Lithuania58.3C4747100
18Slovakia55.0C6713100
19Belgium53.3C3347100
20Malta53.3C671367
21Latvia50.0C3327100
22Ireland48.3C334767
23Croatia45.0C333383
24Hungary45.0C3313100
25Romania41.7D331383
26Cyprus38.3D331367
27Bulgaria36.7D331367
#Top 10 worldwideScoreCl.
1Singapore81.7A
2Japan80.0A
3Norway78.3A
4United Kingdom78.3A
5China76.7A
6France76.7A
7Netherlands76.7A
8Slovenia76.7A
9Germany71.7B
10Spain71.7B

This observatory reports the visibility of AI-governance machinery in public records, scored on the frozen 10-indicator indicator matrix (each indicator 0–3, weighted to 100; a mild H/M/L confidence adjustment). It does not rate compliance, make a supervisory finding, determine legal status, or audit institutions — weak public evidence is a visibility signal, not proof that machinery is absent. Scores follow each jurisdiction's public record at a snapshot date and are never fused across surfaces. Codebook and dataset: Zenodo, CC-BY.