Measured global regulation

Where AI law exists—and where our knowledge stops.

A source-linked view of laws, regulations and enforcement. Empty cells remain empty; access barriers and our own unfinished work are never presented as the same fact.

Last measured13 Oct 202611-day median record freshness
1,513AI-specific instruments tracked126 jurisdictions · 100% source-linked225In forceNot proposed or merely enacted239Publish-ready enforcement matters36 jurisdictions203Active official-source readers23 stale · 17 faulted75Jurisdictions in measured scope195 historical-axis sweeps open · 4 unknown cells

Coverage, not a row-count heatmap

World coverage across three separate axes

CoveredOur gapAnchor onlyBlockedNot publishedNone foundDeferredUnknown
How to read an empty country

White does not mean “no AI law.” It means we make no claim because that cell was not measured or was deliberately deferred.

Grey is not our gap. The source is blocked or the authority does not publish; the country panel tells you which.

Amber is our gap. A readable source remains to be ingested, or only a general anchor law is held.

Enforcement volume

Recorded AI enforcement by year

2
2015
2
2016
3
2017
8
2018
4
2019
6
2020
18
2021
17
2022
21
2023
44
2024
60
2025
52
2026

The current year is incomplete. 2 publish-ready matters have no usable filed or decided date and are excluded from this chart.

What regulators act on

AI role in the matter

Biometrics & facial recognition75
Unspecified AI role66
Automated decisions40
Chatbot safety19
Deepfakes & synthetic media16
Recommendation systems13
Training-data intellectual property13
Algorithmic pricing12
Deceptive AI claims11

“Unspecified” stays visible: it means the source establishes an AI connection without naming the AI function.

United States

In-force law and proposals are not the same thing

29 jurisdictions with an in-force instrument20 with proposals but none in force

116 in-force state-level instruments and 855 pending or proposed instruments are counted separately.

Official sources297
Active readers203
Over silence budget23
Consecutive faults17
Snapshot size117 KB

Deliberately not shown

A dashboard is also defined by what it refuses to claim.

Penalty totals

Not shown until matter-level and multistate deduplication plus imposed dates are complete.

Upcoming effective dates

Not shown until the forward-looking rulemaking layer passes the AI-specific scope gate.

Verification-tier chart

Not charted while the public corpus has only a single-source verification tier.