Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI did not emerge from a legislative process that required years of cross-party negotiation. It was developed by the Infocomm Media Development Authority and launched at Davos in January 2026 — a deliberate signal that governance of autonomous AI systems was too urgent to wait for a treaty or a parliamentary vote. The framework covers systems that plan, reason, and act without step-by-step human approval: the class of AI that is already in enterprise deployment and already generating liability questions that no existing…