State Legislatures Consider New Wave of 2025 AI Regulation
By Jennifer Johnson, Jayne Ponder, August Gweon, Covington - Inside Privacy, February 21, 2025
State lawmakers are considering a diverse array of AI legislation, with hundreds of bills introduced in 2025.
As described further in this blog post, many of these AI legislative proposals fall into several key categories: (1) comprehensive consumer protection legislation similar to the Colorado AI Act, (2) sector-specific legislation on automated decision-making, (3) chatbot regulation, (4) generative AI transparency requirements, (5) AI data center and energy usage requirements, and (6) frontier model public safety legislation. Although these categories represent just a subset of current AI legislative activity, they illustrate the major priorities of state legislatures and highlight new AI laws that may be on the horizon.
