Colorado passed the first comprehensive state AI law in America, and then repealed it before it ever took effect. Virginia's legislature passed one and watched the governor veto it. The European Union's chatbot disclosure rules went live this month, its high-risk regime lands December 2027, and in December the White House ordered the Justice Department to challenge state AI laws while conditioning federal money on their retreat. If keeping track of AI regulation has started to resemble a full-time job, that is because it has quietly become one. So I built the place where the job gets done: ArtificialIntelligenceRegulations.com, a free, continuously maintained record of how every major jurisdiction on earth regulates artificial intelligence, every entry cited to the primary legal text.
The premise is a reversal worth saying plainly. For most of a decade, AI outran the law, and operators could treat regulation as distant weather. That era ended. Three comprehensive AI statutes are now in force, the EU's, South Korea's, and Vietnam's, the last of which reaches foreign providers directly, and the EU Act binds any company whose systems touch users in the Union, with fines that run to 7 percent of worldwide turnover. No global rulebook is coming to simplify this, and the site is built on that fact rather than in denial of it: what exists is a set of distinct national bets, and the practical question for any operator is which bets reach you.
What the site actually is: a register of 33 national and EU regimes, each filed identically, the governing instrument named, status and dates stated plainly, penalties listed, and a link to the statute itself so you can check the wording rather than trust a summary. A separate tracker follows eleven US states, because America's federal posture and its state laws are two different questions, and until the courts settle the preemption fight, every state law on the books remains enforceable. A deadline calendar runs through 2028, topic pages line jurisdictions up side by side on the questions that repeat, deepfakes, hiring tools, transparency, frontier models, and a news digest logs what changed, each item sourced.
The editorial spine is one observation that took years of client work to compress: almost every regime on earth is one of two shapes. Comprehensive and risk-based, one law for the whole economy that scales obligations to potential harm, the EU template that South Korea, Vietnam, and Brazil's pending bill follow. Or sectoral and principles-based, no AI act at all, existing regulators applying existing law to whatever AI does in their remit, the path Britain, Japan, Singapore, and for now the American federal government have chosen. China stands apart, running the most operationally demanding regime in the world through a stack of targeted binding rules with no single statute to point to. Knowing which shape governs you tells you where to look first, and the site is organized so the shapes are visible before the details.
Readers of this library will recognize the construction philosophy, because it is the same one this site documents in its own colophon: pages built to be read by humans and machines with equal seriousness. The register publishes its entire dataset as machine-readable JSON, every claim is dated, and the structure is designed so that when someone asks an assistant which countries have binding AI laws, the answer traces to a primary source instead of being composed from fog. Generative engine optimization is not a garnish here; a reference work that machines cannot quote accurately fails at its actual job.
Why an advertising operator builds a law site is a fair question with a short answer: the rules became operational. The enforcement era that took healthcare's pixels was a preview, not an exception. Chatbot disclosure duties now bind any business deploying conversational AI for EU users, synthetic content wants labeling, automated decisions in hiring and credit are walking into the high-risk regime, and the tools this industry adopts fastest, the models we route work through daily, sit directly in scope. Every serious conversation this year, campaign planning, public affairs work, product roadmaps, eventually hits the same question: what are we actually allowed to build, and where. I got tired of answering it from a folder of stale PDFs.
One honesty note, stated on the site and repeated here: it is a reference, not legal advice, and it says so without mumbling. Laws shift, effective dates slide, Colorado happens. Every jurisdiction page carries its review date, and the standing instruction is to confirm against the linked primary source before relying on anything, which the register makes unusually easy, since the primary source is always one click away. That discipline, currency plus citation, is the entire product. A guide that still lists a repealed act as law is worse than no guide at all.
The site is live now, free, and reviewed continuously. Start with the register if you want the map, the calendar if you want to know what hits your roadmap next, and the state tracker if you sell into America and mistook the federal quiet for calm. The law caught up. The record is how you keep up with the law.