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The 50-State AI Law Atlas

Every state. Every AI law. One map. Compliance teams track this patchwork by hand, in spreadsheets, monthly. This map holds all of it: 54 enacted laws, 21 signed and waiting on their effective dates, and 3 pending bills across 51 jurisdictions, every entry sourced to the official legislature page. Click a state. Filter by category. Watch what changed.

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Every jurisdiction has its own page answering it, with citations, dates, summaries and official sources. These are the ten with the most laws on the books; the map above reaches all 51.

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Every jurisdiction, one page each

All 50 states plus DC, each with its full record: laws, bills, dates, summaries and official sources.

The Wave

Drag the year from 2021 to 2027 and watch AI law arrive state by state, including the January 2027 wall of effective dates.

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Federal vs States

The December 2025 executive order, the DOJ task force, the litigation, and the state laws Washington named, drawn as collision lines.

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Method

Sources, verification cadence, status rules, known caveats, and the full dataset changelog. Read this before citing the atlas.

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Synthetic Media Laws

Every state deepfake law verified at its statute: elections, intimate imagery, likeness and voice, plus the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act.

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AI Energy Policy

Who pays for the grid behind AI, state by state, from the bills, orders and dockets themselves, with the federal layer beside it.

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Sources: state legislatures, NCSL, official journals. Dataset build 2026-08-02. Laws shown are enacted unless marked pending. Pending bills never count as law.

Mapping the EU instead? Start in the EU AI Act Explorer, compare jurisdictions in the Global AI Governance Arena, or cross the four EU acts in the EU Cross-Compliance Graph.

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