556 on file · 318 became law · 142 still moving · 23 moved in 30 days
CaliforniaRegulations that give consumers rights to access and opt out of businesses' use of automated decisionmaking technology and require certain businesses to conduct risk assessments and annual cybersecurity audits.
ChinaAmends the Cybersecurity Law to add a provision supporting AI research, infrastructure, ethics and risk monitoring, raise fines for network security violations, and align liability with the Data Security Law and Personal Information Protection Law.
TexasBans developing or deploying AI systems for certain intentional harms such as behavioral manipulation toward self-harm, unlawful discrimination, government social scoring and sexual deepfakes of minors, requires state agencies to disclose AI use to consumers, and creates an AI regulatory sandbox and the Texas Artificial Intelligence Council, enforced by the attorney general.
NevadaRequires election communications that include synthetic media to disclose that the image, video or audio has been manipulated and lets depicted candidates seek an injunction.
VietnamProvides a legal framework for Viet Nam's digital technology industry, including semiconductors, AI, digital technology parks and digital assets.
MontanaCreates a property right in an individual's name, voice and visual likeness, including digital depictions, and sets penalties for unauthorized use.
MassachusettsWould set consumer protection requirements for interactions with AI systems.
United States (federal)Would set a national AI policy framework and a temporary moratorium preempting certain state laws that restrict AI models and systems.
JapanSets government guidelines under the AI Promotion Act on the steps AI developers, providers and users should take to ensure AI is researched, developed and used appropriately.
United States (federal)Annual defense authorization law for fiscal year 2026, which includes artificial intelligence provisions for defense and intelligence community programs.
MassachusettsWould set consumer protections for people interacting with AI chatbots.
United NationsUpdates the General Assembly's call for a human rights based approach to the design, development, deployment and use of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence.
United NationsThe Global Digital Compact, annexed to the Pact for the Future, sets shared objectives on closing digital divides, an inclusive and safe digital space, data governance and international AI governance, including the decision to create a scientific panel and global dialogue on AI.
United NationsOutcome of the General Assembly's 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society, which makes the Internet Governance Forum a permanent UN forum and schedules the next overall review for 2035.
United States (federal)Would bar the use of federal funds to implement the December 2025 executive order on a national policy framework for AI.
United States (federal)Sets a policy of a minimally burdensome national AI standard, creates a Justice Department task force to challenge state AI laws and conditions some federal funding on state AI policies.
New YorkRequires prior consent before a deceased performer's digital replica is used in audiovisual works, sound recordings or live performances.
New YorkRequires advertisements to conspicuously disclose when they include an AI-generated synthetic performer, with civil penalties for violations.
UruguayTasks the digital government agency AGESIC with designing a national data and artificial intelligence strategy, reporting to Parliament with recommendations for AI regulation, and promoting controlled testing environments for innovative projects.
UruguayRegulates articles 74 and 75 of Law 20.212 by setting rules for controlled testing environments (sandboxes) for innovative projects, especially those using data and artificial intelligence.
District of ColumbiaWould create misdemeanor and felony offenses for nonconsensual distribution of sexually explicit images, video or audio created or altered with digital technology, including AI.
ColombiaGovernment framework bill to regulate the development and use of artificial intelligence in Colombia with a risk-based approach that protects fundamental rights, filed by the President with a message of urgency.
United States (federal)A Senate bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
AustraliaSets out the Australian Government's plan to build AI capability and infrastructure, spread the benefits of AI, and keep Australians safe, including establishing an AI Safety Institute.
United NationsReaffirms that international law applies throughout the life cycle of AI in the military domain, takes note of the Secretary-General's report under resolution 79/239 and decides to convene informal exchanges among States in Geneva on its conclusions.
United NationsThird General Assembly resolution on lethal autonomous weapons systems, calling on parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons to complete the elements of an instrument under development in the Group of Governmental Experts with a view to future negotiations.
United NationsDemands that human control and oversight be maintained over nuclear weapons command, control and communications systems that integrate artificial intelligence, and urges nuclear-weapon States to publish policies affirming this.
United States (federal)Launches the Genesis Mission, a Department of Energy led effort to build an AI platform using federal scientific datasets to accelerate research.
United States (federal)Would require the Department of Homeland Security to assess threats posed by terrorist use of generative AI.
United States (federal)House subcommittee hearing on the risks and benefits of AI chatbots for consumers and minors.
United NationsA UNESCO standard-setting recommendation, mandated by the 42nd General Conference in November 2023, that gives Member States shared values, principles and concrete policy actions for the ethical development and use of neurotechnology.
United States (federal)Would require companies seeking licenses to export advanced AI chips to countries of concern to certify that U.S. buyers get priority access.
CaliforniaRequires large generative AI providers to offer a free AI detection tool and to embed disclosures in AI-generated image, video and audio content.
CaliforniaRequires companion chatbot operators to disclose that the chatbot is AI, maintain protocols against suicide and self-harm content, add safeguards for known minors and report annually to the Office of Suicide Prevention.
CaliforniaBars a defendant who developed, modified or used artificial intelligence from arguing that the AI autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.
CaliforniaDelays the California AI Transparency Act to August 2, 2026 and adds content provenance duties for large online platforms from 2027 and capture device makers from 2028.
CaliforniaMakes bans on falsely implying a health care license enforceable against developers and deployers of AI systems that use such terms, letters or phrases.
ItalyItaly's national framework law on artificial intelligence, setting human-centred principles for the research, development and use of AI systems and delegating the government to adopt implementing legislative decrees.
CaliforniaRequires police reports written fully or partly with AI to include a disclosure, requires the first AI draft to be retained and requires agencies to keep an audit trail.
European UnionCommission communication to speed up AI adoption in industry and the public sector through sectoral flagships, SME support, an Apply AI Alliance and an AI Observatory.
United States (federal)Directs use of artificial intelligence and federal data to accelerate pediatric cancer research.
European UnionProposed directive adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to AI, including disclosure of evidence and a rebuttable presumption of causality, which the Commission withdrew.
CaliforniaMakes it unlawful under the Cartwright Act to use or distribute a common pricing algorithm as part of a conspiracy to restrain trade or to coerce others into adopting its recommended prices.
OhioWould declare AI systems nonsentient and prohibit granting them legal personhood.
MontanaRegulates deepfakes of candidates and parties in election and electioneering communications by requiring a disclosure and allowing injunctive relief and penalties.
MontanaLimits state and local government use of AI systems, prohibits certain uses such as cognitive behavioral manipulation, and requires disclosure and human review of AI-generated decisions.
NevadaRequires state and local emergency management plans to ensure final emergency response and resource decisions are not made by artificial intelligence and bars utilities from shutting off service based solely on AI.
OhioState operating budget that requires the Department of Education and Workforce to develop a model policy on AI use in schools and requires websites offering material harmful to juveniles to verify users' ages.
CaliforniaRequires large frontier AI developers to publish frontier AI frameworks and transparency reports, report critical safety incidents to the state, protects whistleblowers and sets up a consortium to plan a public computing cluster called CalCompute.
United States (federal)Would create a federal product liability cause of action for harms caused by AI systems.
Legislationsby Glyph