{
  "title": "Politics in the 2021 report",
  "report_year": 2021,
  "period": "Historical snapshot: October 2021. Dates and populations are specified per row.",
  "methodology": "This is a historical account, not current legal guidance. Military examples should not be treated as proof that every stage of targeting or decision-making was autonomous.",
  "source_deck": "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bwJDRC777rAf00Drthi9yT2c9b0MabWO5ZlksfvFzx8/edit?usp=sharing",
  "web_edition_date": "2026-10-11",
  "rows": [
    {
      "measure": "EU AI Act proposal",
      "value": "April 2021",
      "definition": "Proposal timing; not the date of a final enacted law.",
      "printed_slide": 166,
      "pdf_page": 166,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2021.pdf#page=166"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Risk groupings in the report",
      "value": "Prohibited, high-risk, low-risk",
      "definition": "The report’s summary of the proposal, not a statement of current law.",
      "printed_slide": 166,
      "pdf_page": 166,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2021.pdf#page=166"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Military example",
      "value": "AI-guided drone swarm",
      "definition": "Deployment example reported in the 2021 deck.",
      "printed_slide": 175,
      "pdf_page": 175,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2021.pdf#page=175"
    }
  ]
}