Singapore Launches World's First Agentic AI Governance Framework at Davos

Summary

Singapore's Minister for Digital Development and Information, Josephine Teo, announced the world's first comprehensive Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22, 2026. Developed by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the framework builds on Singapore's earlier 2020 Model AI Governance Framework and is specifically designed to address the unique risks of autonomous AI systems that can "plan across multiple steps to achieve specifi