58
▼ 1.7% vs 2024
AI-related regulations issued by US federal agencies in 2025
20162025
What the chart shows
The AI Index counts 58 AI-related regulations issued by US federal agencies in 2025, one fewer than the 59 of 2024, the highest year in the data. In 2016 there was one.
The count more than doubled from 25 in 2023 to 59 in 2024. In early 2025 the new administration revoked the 2023 executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy AI and turned federal policy towards fewer regulatory constraints, the AI Index notes; the number of AI-related regulations stayed close to its 2024 level.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 |
| 2024 (high) | 59 |
| 2023 | 25 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2016 | 1 |
How to read it
- Counts documents in the Federal Register that mention “artificial intelligence”, as identified by the AI Index; they include rules, executive orders and other regulatory actions.
- The data file has no row for 2017, so that year is not shown.
- A count of regulatory actions, not of their direction: rules that remove requirements count the same as rules that add them.
Source: AI Index, 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 8.4.10: Number of AI-related regulations in the United States, 2016–25. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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