AI Regulation, Tracked Across 110 Countries
Artificial intelligence regulation moved from proposal to obligation faster than almost any area of technology law. This tracker follows 1,142 instruments across 110 countries and jurisdictions: 668 already in force, 366 still moving through legislatures as drafts, proposals, bills under review or adopted texts awaiting commencement. Every entry carries its jurisdiction, its current status, the dates that matter and a link to the official source, so a claim on this site can always be checked against the instrument itself.
There is no single model of AI regulation
The instruments in this corpus divide into 247 acts, 174 bills, 83 regulations, 64 decrees, 179 guidelines and 370 policies and national strategies. That spread is the point: a country with no AI statute may still regulate AI heavily through data protection, product safety, consumer law and sector supervision. Reading only the statutes gives a misleading picture of where obligations actually bite.
Three broad approaches are visible across the corpus. The European Union legislates horizontally, setting risk tiers that apply across every sector at once. The United Kingdom and Switzerland distribute the work to existing sector regulators and avoid a single AI law. China regulates by targeted measure — algorithmic recommendation, deep synthesis, generative AI services, content labelling — each addressing a specific application rather than the technology as a whole.
Where the activity is
Coverage is deepest where legislative activity is heaviest. United States (271), United Kingdom (40), European Union (31), Argentina (29), Australia (27) lead by instrument count. The United States figure combines federal action with a large and growing body of state law, which is why it is several times the size of any single-legislature jurisdiction.
Activity has not slowed: 121 instruments dated 2026, 282 instruments dated 2025, 282 instruments dated 2024. New and amended instruments are added continuously, and status changes are re-checked against the official source rather than carried forward on trust.
What else is here
Beyond the instruments themselves, the site holds a glossary of 4,243 defined terms — many carrying the competing definitions of a single concept across different laws, so you can see how “high-risk AI system” differs between the EU AI Act and Colorado’s statute — 283 enforcement actions and court decisions, and 541 research papers on AI law and governance.
Common questions
- What is AI regulation?
- AI regulation is the body of law, policy and guidance that governs how artificial intelligence systems may be built, sold and used. It is not one thing: it spans binding statutes such as the EU AI Act, sectoral rules applied by existing regulators, national strategies with no legal force, and technical standards. This tracker holds 1,142 such instruments from 110 countries and jurisdictions — 247 acts, 174 bills, 83 regulations, 64 decrees, 179 guidelines and 370 policies and strategies.
- How many countries have AI laws?
- 110 countries and jurisdictions have at least one AI instrument in this tracker, and 668 of the 1,142 instruments are in force today. A further 366 sit in the legislative pipeline as drafts, proposals, bills under review or adopted texts awaiting commencement. Coverage is deepest in the United States (271 instruments, federal and state), the United Kingdom (40) and the European Union (31).
- Is AI regulated in the United States?
- There is no single federal AI statute. Regulation comes from executive orders, sector regulators applying existing law, and — increasingly — individual states. This tracker holds 271 United States instruments across federal and state level, which is more than any other jurisdiction.
- Does China regulate AI?
- Yes, and earlier than most. China regulates AI through targeted measures rather than one horizontal law: rules on algorithmic recommendation, on deep synthesis, on generative AI services, and on labelling AI-generated content, layered over the Cybersecurity Law, the Data Security Law and PIPL. This tracker holds 25 Chinese instruments with the full text of each rule summarised and sourced.
- When does the EU AI Act apply?
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 entered into force in 2024 and applies in stages, with obligations for prohibited practices, general-purpose AI models and high-risk systems commencing on different dates. The tracker records the commencement date on each instrument rather than summarising it here, because the schedule has already been amended once — by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI.
- Is this tracker free?
- Yes. Every regulation, its status, its dates and its official source are public and require no account. A free account unlocks the written analysis, saved searches and PDF export. There is no paywall on the facts.