Technology moves quickly and regulations always lag behind. But AI has thrown everything into overdrive, both the pace of technological change and the rate at which regulators are having to come up with new laws.
China’s AI laws were first enacted in 2023, just months after the release of ChatGPT. The EU’s AI Act was approved in 2024. And other countries also have AI laws already on the books, as do many US states. In fact, Taft Law has a list of 50 different laws in 19 states that are either already in effect or will take effect soon. And according to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), many states are working on more AI laws, including Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, Massachusetts, and many others.
“States are acting at a pace that we’ve never seen,” says Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, MD of IAPP’s Wahington, DC, office. “It’s much quicker than we’ve seen with privacy.”
