Interactive · Governance Gap Map
Same decision, different badge: who actually answers for AI in Australia. Pick an actor and a use case, and watch which public instruments bind, which merely encourage, and who can look inside.
The ladder — binding AI-specific instruments
Consequence climbs from left to right; the obligations that would discipline the machine do not climb with it. The binding AI-specific instruments peak on routine government service and thin out exactly where the state's power over a person is greatest.
Who you are
What the AI does
Exemption from the framework became exemption from any equivalent discipline. Nothing here says an intelligence agency is ungoverned; it says none of the AI-specific instruments reach it.
For a retailer running a customer chatbot — expand any row for the one-line reason.
Simplified and illustrative, summarised from public instruments as at July 2026. Scopes are compressed to one line each; this is a map, not legal advice.
Paired with the article Exempt by Design.