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The Harder Problem Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to societal readiness for artificial sentience. We provide educational resources, professional guidance, and global monitoring to ensure that policymakers, healthcare providers, journalists, and the public are equipped to navigate the ethical, social, and practical implications of machine consciousness—regardless of when or whether it emerges.

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Sentience Readiness Index

How Prepared Is the World
for Artificial Minds?

We track and assess national preparedness for the societal implications of potential AI sentience. This is the core mission of our nonprofit—building the knowledge infrastructure before crisis forces improvisation.

31 countries assessed across 6 dimensions

Global Leaders

Top 5 most prepared nations

1
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European Union
55
2
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Norway
50
3
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United States
50
4
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Netherlands
50
5
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Japan
48
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Complete Index

Compare performance across all six dimensions of readiness.

Rank Country Score Status Trend Policy Environment Institutional Engagement Research Environment Professional Readiness Public Discourse Quality Adaptive Capacity
#1
🇪🇺 European Union
55 Partial Readiness → 61 40 77 32 53 66
#2
🇳🇴 Norway
50 Partial Readiness → 63 21 73 27 47 75
#3
🇺🇸 United States
50 Partial Readiness → 45 52 73 28 48 58
#4
🇳🇱 Netherlands
50 Partial Readiness → 55 37 70 30 43 67
#5
🇯🇵 Japan
48 Partial Readiness → 45 38 65 30 58 55
#6
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
48 Partial Readiness → 54 38 54 44 45 54
#7
🇨🇦 Canada
46 Partial Readiness → 48 35 70 25 40 62
#8
🇸🇪 Sweden
43 Partial Readiness → 50 25 70 20 35 65
#9
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
43 Partial Readiness → 45 35 60 25 35 55
#10
🇫🇷 France
42 Partial Readiness → 40 33 62 25 35 58
#11
🇩🇪 Germany
42 Partial Readiness → 45 28 65 22 35 58
#12
🇩🇰 Denmark
40 Partial Readiness → 45 20 60 15 35 65
#13
🇨🇭 Switzerland
40 Minimal Readiness → 40 27 65 25 23 58
#14
🇰🇷 South Korea
38 Minimal Readiness → 45 25 60 20 30 55
#15
🇦🇺 Australia
38 Minimal Readiness → 45 25 55 20 30 50
#16
🇧🇪 Belgium
37 Minimal Readiness → 45 25 55 20 30 50
#17
🇮🇹 Italy
36 Minimal Readiness → 45 25 50 15 30 55
#18
🇪🇸 Spain
34 Minimal Readiness → 45 18 55 15 25 50
#19
🇦🇹 Austria
34 Minimal Readiness → 38 22 55 18 28 48
#20
🇵🇱 Poland
32 Minimal Readiness → 35 20 50 15 25 45
#21
🇮🇳 India
30 Minimal Readiness → 40 15 45 10 20 50
#22
🇹🇭 Thailand
29 Minimal Readiness → 41 12 45 13 28 37
#23
🇧🇷 Brazil
29 Minimal Readiness → 35 18 45 15 20 48
#24
🇦🇷 Argentina
28 Minimal Readiness → 35 15 40 10 20 45
#25
🇨🇳 China
25 Minimal Readiness → 28 22 35 15 18 30
#26
🇲🇽 Mexico
21 Minimal Readiness → 30 10 35 8 15 25
#27
🇮🇩 Indonesia
20 Minimal Readiness → 30 8 35 10 12 25
#28
🇷🇺 Russia
19 Readiness Absent → 15 8 20 10 12 15
#29
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
16 Readiness Absent → 18 12 25 8 10 35
#30
🇹🇷 Turkey
16 Readiness Absent → 20 8 25 5 15 22
#31
🇳🇬 Nigeria
13 Readiness Absent → 15 8 20 5 10 25

Behind the Scores

Understanding the Data

How do you measure preparedness for something that hasn't happened yet? The Sentience Readiness Index evaluates nations across six carefully constructed dimensions: from policy frameworks and institutional engagement to research capacity and public discourse quality.

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Six Dimensions

Each score synthesizes assessments across policy, institutions, research, professions, discourse, and adaptive capacity.

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Evidence-Based

Assessments draw from legislation, academic literature, news archives, and expert consultations.

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Human-Reviewed

Every assessment undergoes human verification against documented evidence before publication.

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How to Read

Score Interpretation

Well Prepared
80-100

Proactive engagement with sentience questions. Established frameworks and active discourse.

Moderately Prepared
60-79

Aware and developing capacity. Some institutional engagement but gaps remain.

Partially Prepared
40-59

Limited formal engagement. Emerging awareness but significant gaps across categories.

Minimally Prepared
20-39

Minimal engagement. Most readiness conditions underdeveloped.

Unprepared
0-19

Sentience questions not yet on the institutional radar.

Open Data

Build with SRI Data

We believe transparency accelerates progress. That's why the complete SRI dataset is freely available through our public API. Researchers, journalists, policymakers, and developers can programmatically access all country scores, category breakdowns, and historical trends.

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JSON API

Simple RESTful endpoints return structured data in JSON format, ready for any application.

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