Federal policy
Executive policy and federal agency actions shape national AI priorities.
AIACT Research · Updated September 2026
US AI regulation
The United States does not currently use a single horizontal federal AI Act equivalent to the EU model. The landscape is distributed across federal executive policy, agencies, sectoral rules and state legislation.
State laws
States can adopt AI-specific or adjacent requirements that create a patchwork for businesses operating nationally.
Sectoral regulation
Employment, finance, health, consumer protection, privacy and civil-rights rules can apply to AI use.
Compliance implication
US classification often requires mapping the use case to multiple legal layers rather than one AI-specific risk taxonomy.
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