United States of AmericaAI regulation

Regulation Status

• ❗️ This profile card covers US federal developments only. For state-level developments, find the US state profile card below (or in the tab menu above).
• The US has no single comprehensive, binding federal AI statute; it relies on sectoral and targeted laws (notably the TAKE IT DOWN Act), executive orders and voluntary frameworks. Regulation is fragmented across federal, state and local levels — California and New York lead on volume of proposed bills — and the Trump administration has moved toward a deregulatory, pro-innovation, preemption-oriented stance, with Executive Order 14365 ("Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence", December 2025) directing an AI Litigation Task Force within the Department of Justice to challenge state AI laws as unduly burdening interstate commerce.
• Federal AI activity spans national security, bias and fairness, transparency and disclosure, and accountability, pursued through a dense mix of executive orders, agency frameworks and proposed bills rather than a single comprehensive statute; instruments range from strategic and administrative initiatives to rules on specific issues such as deepfakes and foundation models. In June 2026, federal activity also included frontier-model access controls for cybersecurity and national-security reasons: after an export-control directive affecting Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the government later lifted immediate controls on 30 June 2026, with Claude Fable 5 set for global redeployment and the less-safeguarded Mythos 5 restored for select domestic organizations in a defensive cybersecurity program.
• The TAKE IT DOWN Act was signed into law on 19 May 2025, criminalising the publication of nonconsensual intimate imagery (including AI-generated/deepfake content) and requiring covered platforms to remove such material within 48 hours; it is now being actively enforced, with the FTC issuing compliance guidance and launching a complaint platform and the DOJ bringing its first criminal charges in May 2026.