The UK, Canada, Brazil — and the Missing Map: Africa, the Middle East, Latin America

Three democracies that promised AI laws and stalled — the UK’s regulator-led experiment, Canada’s dead bill, Brazil’s bicameral grind — then the map most curricula skip: the African Union’s continental strategy, Gulf-state ambition, Latin America beyond Brazil, and the data workers who make frontier AI possible.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. The UK: regulating AI without an AI law
2. Canada: the bill that died and the directive that lives
3. Brazil: PL 2338 and the bicameral grind
4. The missing map: Africa, the Gulf, and Latin America beyond Brazil
5. The invisible workforce: data labour and the Global South