AI law and policy in Singapore
5 instruments relevant to AI in Singapore are indexed here, 1 of them binding law, none of which names AI or deepfakes in its title.
Governance readiness 6 of 10 points on the governance readiness index, which records how much machinery exists, not how strict it is. AI Governance Readiness Index This site Our own editorial coding from primary legal sources, not an objective measurement. Every score cites a specific instrument and article. "Readiness" means the machinery exists to govern AI. It is emphatically not a judgement that the resulting rules are good, proportionate, or well enforced. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Governance Readiness Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/methodology/governance-readiness/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.
Statutes
Act of Parliament. Binding on everyone it applies to.
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Parliament of Singapore
The binding instrument. Singapore's AI governance work is voluntary; its data protection law is not, and that is where enforcement actually happens.
- privacy
Regulator guidance
How a regulator states it will apply existing law. Creates no obligations of its own.
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Personal Data Protection Commission
How the regulator reads consent, legitimate interests and business improvement exceptions when personal data is used to train or run a model. The operative compliance document for anyone deploying AI in Singapore. Linked to the guidelines index rather than the document, because the PDPC moves its own document URLs and the deep link 404s.
- privacy
- transparency
Voluntary standards
Guidance with no legal force. Compliance is a choice.
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Infocomm Media Development Authority
Guidance for organisations deploying AI agents, built on the 2020 framework: bounding risk before deployment, human approval checkpoints, technical controls across the agent's lifecycle, and transparency to end users. Voluntary.
- safety
- transparency
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Infocomm Media Development Authority and AI Verify Foundation
Nine dimensions from accountability and data to incident reporting and security. Voluntary, and widely used as a template outside Singapore, which gives it influence well beyond its legal force.
- safety
- transparency
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AI Verify 2022
AI Verify Foundation
A testing toolkit rather than a document: it runs technical tests and produces a report against the governance principles. Few jurisdictions have turned AI principles into something executable, and this is the clearest attempt.
- safety
- transparency
About this index
Compiled here from primary instruments and licensed MIT.
1 of the 5 instruments here are binding law, and 0 of those name AI. The remainder apply to AI without naming it, so a keyword search of the statute book does not find them.
Topics covered: privacy, safety, transparency. A build check probes every citation on this page, because a link that returns a 404 looks like evidence and is not.
This is not legal advice. It is not a compliance checklist and it is not exhaustive. Commencement dates, proposals and enforcement positions move; the review date is on every record. If something here is wrong, say so and it gets fixed and listed rather than quietly patched.