North America · CoE Framework Convention signatory
Overview
The United States has no comprehensive federal AI legislation. In December 2025, a presidential executive order revoked the Biden administration's 2023 AI Executive Order and directed federal agencies to reduce regulatory barriers to AI innovation. The Senate's bipartisan AI policy roadmap has not yet produced omnibus legislation.
–In the absence of a federal framework, regulation has developed at the state level. As of March 2026, at least 40 states and territories have enacted AI-related laws spanning deepfakes and synthetic media, employment and hiring, healthcare, privacy and automated decision-making, election advertising, government use, transparency, and consumer protection. Several states, notably Colorado, Texas, and New York, have enacted or are implementing broad AI governance frameworks comparable in ambition, if not in scope, to the EU AI Act.
–This patchwork creates a complex compliance landscape: an AI system deployed nationally may be subject to dozens of overlapping and occasionally conflicting state requirements. The table below provides a state-by-state breakdown of enacted legislation, organised by regulatory category.