Version History

Standard Version History

AGS is a living standard; v3.1 expanded it to 841 dimensions. Amendments are published following a public comment period.

Changelog

Release Timeline

AGS v3.1 — June 2026 Current
  • Expanded to The 841 Dimensions (+3 cross-border dimensions)
  • Cross-border completion: law-following AI (compliance-by-design), jurisdictional compliance kill-switch, agent contract-formation authority
  • Provable coverage maintained across 12 framework taxonomies (113 threats), 0 gaps
  • v3.1.1 patch (independent review): citation corrections to NIST AI RMF GOVERN subcategory and EU AI Act article references across the new dimensions; no dimension changes (841 / 101 unchanged)
AGS v3.0 — June 2026
  • Expanded to The 838 Dimensions across 101 landscapes (+21 dimensions, +1 landscape)
  • Group K — Frontier Autonomy: scalable oversight of superhuman systems, recursive-self-improvement governance, untrusted-model control & compute governance, long-horizon autonomy limits, agent-economy systemic risk, and model welfare under moral-status uncertainty
  • Group L — Embodied AI: safety-class & force/speed limiting, physical-action reversibility & fail-safe-to-stop, sim-to-real/SOTIF validation, robot-fleet & OTA-update governance
  • Aligned to frontier-lab safety frameworks, UK AISI research, and ISO robot-safety standards; provable coverage maintained across 10 framework taxonomies
AGS v2.2 — June 2026
  • Expanded to The 817 Dimensions across 100 landscapes (+21 dimensions, +6 landscapes)
  • Frontier-safety evaluation: deceptive-alignment/scheming, sabotage, corrigibility, sandbagging, capability-threshold gating, dangerous-capability elicitation
  • Non-human identity lifecycle, agent compute & cost budgeting, code-execution sandboxing, autonomous payment mandates
  • New safety-critical sector landscapes: aviation, maritime, space, nuclear, gambling, sports integrity
  • Provable coverage: 96 threats across 10 framework taxonomies (OWASP, NIST AI 600-1, MITRE ATLAS, CSA MAESTRO, NHI), 0 gaps
AGS v2.1 — April 2026
  • Initial publication of The 796 Dimensions
  • 10 dimension groups (A through J)
  • First public compliance leaderboard
  • 1 platform verified · 5 platforms on leaderboard
  • 180,767 words of specification
Roadmap — Beyond v3.0 Planned
  • Continued frontier tracking: scalable-oversight, AI-control, and compute-governance controls as the research matures
  • Deeper cross-border & sovereignty controls (expanding AG-47) and further sector coverage
  • Living standard: amendments published following a public comment period
Process

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Proposed amendments are submitted to the standards committee for review. Submissions are published for a 90-day public comment period before adoption. No amendment is adopted without independent review.

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