AI Policies

AI policy instruments, in full text

Bills, regulations, guidelines, and policies from 58 countries and 13 international bodies, with the original text, English translations, source links, and provenance.

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Policy instruments
1,262
Countries
58
International bodies
13
US states and DC
51
Source languages
21
English translations
54

Where instruments come from

Each circle is a country, and its area is proportional to its number of instruments. The United States has 924 instruments, and 236 of them belong to a state or the District of Columbia. Select a circle to browse the instruments.

United States: 924 China: 100 United Kingdom: 26 Canada: 22 India: 15 Singapore: 11 Argentina: 10 Ireland: 7 United Arab Emirates: 7 Saudi Arabia: 6 Greece: 5 Israel: 5 Italy: 5 Japan: 5 Slovakia: 5 Switzerland: 5 Chile: 4 Kenya: 4 South Korea: 4 Thailand: 4 Colombia: 3 Denmark: 3 Hong Kong: 3 Indonesia: 3 Latvia: 3 Malta: 3 Netherlands: 3 Russia: 3 Austria: 2 Croatia: 2 Cyprus: 2 France: 2 Germany: 2 Ghana: 2 Iran: 2 Luxembourg: 2 New Zealand: 2 Nigeria: 2 Rwanda: 2 Ukraine: 2 Australia: 1 Brazil: 1 Egypt: 1 Hungary: 1 Iraq: 1 Kazakhstan: 1 Malaysia: 1 Mexico: 1 Pakistan: 1 Peru: 1 Qatar: 1 Serbia: 1 Slovenia: 1 South Africa: 1 Spain: 1 Taiwan: 1 Türkiye: 1 Vietnam: 1

United States, state by state

  1. AK 2
  2. ME 4
  3. WI 2
  4. VT 4
  5. NH 3
  6. WA 4
  7. ID 4
  8. MT 6
  9. ND 2
  10. MN 4
  11. IL 12
  12. MI 3
  13. NY 10
  14. MA 3
  15. OR 4
  16. NV 1
  17. WY 2
  18. SD 1
  19. IA 8
  20. IN 1
  21. OH 2
  22. PA 2
  23. NJ 6
  24. CT 3
  25. RI 4
  26. CA 29
  27. UT 8
  28. CO 13
  29. NE 1
  30. MO 1
  31. KY 2
  32. WV 1
  33. VA 5
  34. MD 11
  35. DE 4
  36. AZ 6
  37. NM 1
  38. KS 1
  39. AR 2
  40. TN 11
  41. NC 5
  42. SC 2
  43. DC 1
  44. OK 2
  45. LA 6
  46. MS 3
  47. AL 3
  48. GA 3
  49. HI 6
  50. TX 7
  51. FL 5
  • 1
  • 2–4
  • 5–9
  • 10–19
  • 20 or more

The map doesn't show 688 US instruments, because they are federal or city-level, not state-level.

International bodies

22 instruments come from 13 international bodies, such as the European Union and the United Nations, not from one country. Each square is one instrument, placed in the year of its version date. Select a square to open the instrument.

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 No date Total
European Union 4
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation 4
Association of Southeast Asian Nations 2
Group of Seven 2
United Nations 2
African Union 1
BRICS 1
Canada and the European Union 1
Council of Europe 1
Countries attending the AI Safety Summit 1
Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence 1
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 1
United Nations Member States 1

When versions were issued

Each instrument appears in the year of its recorded version date. Instruments with no date in the source have their own column.

  • Introduced
  • Enacted
  • Consolidated
  • Kind not recorded
  1. 5 ≤2015
  2. 4 2016
  3. 6 2017
  4. 19 2018
  5. 36 2019
  6. 43 2020
  7. 59 2021
  8. 45 2022
  9. 122 2023
  10. 203 2024
  11. 239 2025
  12. 212 2026
  13. 2 2027
  14. 267 No date
Show as a table
Year IntroducedEnactedConsolidatedKind not recorded Total
≤2015 2210 5
2016 4000 4
2017 4101 6
2018 12205 19
2019 27306 36
2020 37303 43
2021 46706 59
2022 33705 45
2023 8323016 122
2024 12748028 203
2025 14661032 239
2026 1476005 212
2027 0200 2
No date 000267 267

What they are

Instrument type

  1. Bill 955
  2. Policy 135
  3. Guideline 56
  4. Act 53
  5. Regulation 29
  6. Decree 17
  7. Report 10
  8. Resolution 3
  9. Standard 2
  10. Announcement 1
  11. Code 1

Status

  1. In force 795
  2. Adopted 410
  3. Status unknown 37
  4. Draft 20

Policy areas

  1. Computers and information technology 178
  2. Advanced technology and technological innovations 173
  3. Science, Technology, Communications 155
  4. Congressional oversight 130
  5. Computer security and identity theft 69
  6. Commerce 64
  7. Government Operations and Politics 63
  8. Advisory bodies 60
  9. Armed Forces and National Security 57
  10. Government information and archives 56
  11. Government studies and investigations 56
  12. Administrative law and regulatory procedures 43

Congress.gov assigns these policy areas. The data has them for 537 US instruments only.

Languages and translation

English is the language of 1,198 instruments, so the chart shows only the other languages. A machine made each English translation unless the legend says human.

  • English machine translation
  • English human translation
  • Original text only
  1. Spanish 17
  2. Multiple languages 12
  3. Chinese 10
  4. Dutch 3
  5. German 3
  6. French 2
  7. Italian 2
  8. Russian 2
  9. Thai 2
  10. Danish 1
  11. Greek 1
  12. Hungarian 1
  13. Indonesian 1
  14. Japanese 1
  15. Korean 1
  16. Persian 1
  17. Portuguese 1
  18. Slovak 1
  19. Ukrainian 1
  20. Vietnamese 1

What is still missing

Every record is unreviewed. Corrections help most where data is missing, as this chart shows. Each instrument page has a button for suggesting a correction.

  • Recorded
  • Missing
  1. Version date 79%
  2. Version kind 80%
  3. Summary 24%
  4. Policy areas 43%
  5. Human review 0%