{"slug":"us","name":"United States","short_name":"US","iso_code":"US","jurisdiction_type":"country","region":"Americas","subregion":"Northern America","overview":"The United States has no comprehensive federal AI statute. Federal policy is set through executive orders, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memoranda for federal agencies, agency enforcement under existing consumer-protection, civil-rights, employment and financial laws, and voluntary frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. States have moved faster: Colorado enacted the first cross-sector algorithmic-discrimination law in 2024, and California, Texas, Utah and others have adopted AI-specific statutes on transparency, frontier models, chatbots and government use. The result is a patchwork that organisations must map state by state and sector by sector.\n","regulatory_status_summary":"Federal: executive-branch policy (Executive Order 14179 of January 2025 and the July 2025 AI Action Plan) plus binding OMB requirements for federal agencies' use and procurement of AI; NIST AI RMF is voluntary. States: a growing number of binding statutes with 2025–2026 effective dates. A reviewer must confirm the status of federal efforts to pre-empt or discourage state AI laws announced in late 2025.\n","binding_vs_guidance":"Binding on the private sector: state statutes (for example Colorado SB 26-189, California SB 53, Texas HB 149), sector laws (FCRA, ECOA, Title VII, HIPAA, FTC Act Section 5) as applied to AI. Binding on federal agencies: OMB memoranda M-25-21 and M-25-22. Voluntary: NIST AI RMF and its Generative AI Profile.\n","current_priorities":"Federal deregulatory agenda and infrastructure build-out under the AI Action Plan, agency AI use-case inventories and procurement rules, state implementation of algorithmic-discrimination and frontier-model transparency laws, and litigation and enforcement by state attorneys general and the FTC on deceptive AI claims.\n","regulators":[{"name":"National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)","url":"https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework","role":"Voluntary frameworks and standards"},{"name":"Office of Management and Budget (OMB)","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/","role":"Federal agency AI use and procurement policy"},{"name":"Federal Trade Commission (FTC)","url":"https://www.ftc.gov/","role":"Consumer protection and unfair or deceptive AI practices"}],"official_sources":[{"title":"NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)","publisher":"National Institute of Standards and Technology","url":"https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework","document_date":"2023-01-26","document_type":"standard","tier":1},{"title":"Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence","publisher":"The White House","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/","document_date":"2025-01-23","document_type":"legislation","tier":1},{"title":"America's AI Action Plan","publisher":"The White House / Office of Science and Technology Policy","url":"https://www.ai.gov/action-plan","document_date":"2025-07-23","document_type":"strategy","tier":1}],"related_jurisdictions":["eu","uk","us-colorado","us-california"],"url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/us","source":{"official_source_url":"https://www.ai.gov/","source_title":"AI.gov — United States federal AI policy hub","source_publisher":"Office of Science and Technology Policy","source_document_date":null,"source_reference":null,"source_tier":1,"last_checked_at":"2026-09-26","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26","review_status":"verified","confidence_level":"medium","content_version":2,"change_summary":"Initial structured record.","reviewed_by":"Bhaskar Bhatt"},"policies":[{"slug":"us-executive-order-14179","id":"AIPT-POL-0231","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0231","title":"Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"EO 14179","jurisdiction":"us","instrument_type":"executive_order","status":"in_force","is_binding":true,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"President of the United States","summary_plain":"Executive Order 14179, signed 23 January 2025, sets US federal policy to sustain and enhance American AI dominance, directs the development of an AI Action Plan within 180 days, and orders agencies to review and revise or rescind actions taken under the revoked Executive Order 14110 that are inconsistent with the new policy. It also called for revision of the OMB memoranda governing federal agency use and procurement of AI, which OMB replaced in April 2025 with M-25-21 and M-25-22.\n","adopted_on":"2025-01-23","in_force_on":"2025-01-23","applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26","reviewed_by":"Bhaskar Bhatt","content_version":1,"review_status":"verified","confidence_level":"high","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:25+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-executive-order-14179"},{"slug":"us-executive-order-14365-national-policy-framework-for-ai","id":"AIPT-POL-0232","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0232","title":"Executive Order 14365: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"Executive Order 14365 (state AI laws)","jurisdiction":"us","instrument_type":"executive_order","status":"in_force","is_binding":true,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"The White House","summary_plain":"Directs the Attorney General to set up an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws, asks the Commerce Department to identify \"onerous\" state AI laws (with non-deployment broadband (BEAD) funds tied to that list), and asks the FTC for a policy statement on AI outputs. It does not itself pre-empt any state law; that would take legislation or a court ruling.","adopted_on":"2025-12-11","in_force_on":"2025-12-11","applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/16/2025-23092/ensuring-a-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence","last_verified_at":null,"reviewed_by":null,"content_version":1,"review_status":"pending_review","confidence_level":"medium","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:25+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-executive-order-14365-national-policy-framework-for-ai"},{"slug":"us-nist-ai-rmf","id":"AIPT-POL-0233","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0233","title":"NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) and Generative AI Profile","short_title":"NIST AI RMF","jurisdiction":"us","instrument_type":"framework","status":"voluntary_standard","is_binding":false,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"National Institute of Standards and Technology (US Department of Commerce)","summary_plain":"The NIST AI Risk Management Framework is a voluntary framework for managing risks to individuals, organisations and society from AI. It organises practices into four functions: Govern, Map, Measure and Manage, and describes characteristics of trustworthy AI such as validity, safety, security, accountability, explainability, privacy and fairness. The July 2024 Generative AI Profile (NIST AI 600-1) adds risks and suggested actions specific to generative AI. Many US procurement requirements and state laws reference the framework as a recognised approach.\n","adopted_on":"2023-01-26","in_force_on":null,"applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/NIST.AI.100-1.pdf","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26","reviewed_by":"Bhaskar Bhatt","content_version":1,"review_status":"verified","confidence_level":"high","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:25+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-nist-ai-rmf"},{"slug":"us-omb-m-25-21","id":"AIPT-POL-0234","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0234","title":"OMB Memorandum M-25-21: Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust","short_title":"OMB M-25-21","jurisdiction":"us","instrument_type":"guidance","status":"in_force","is_binding":true,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President","summary_plain":"M-25-21 directs US federal agencies on how to govern and use AI. It requires agencies to designate Chief AI Officers, maintain AI governance boards, publish AI use-case inventories, and apply minimum risk-management practices to \"high-impact\" AI, including pre-deployment testing, AI impact assessments, ongoing monitoring, human oversight and training, and remedies for affected individuals. It replaced the 2024 memoranda with a greater emphasis on adoption and innovation while retaining core risk practices.\n","adopted_on":"2025-04-03","in_force_on":"2025-04-03","applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-for-agencies/memoranda/","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26","reviewed_by":"Bhaskar Bhatt","content_version":1,"review_status":"verified","confidence_level":"medium","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:25+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-omb-m-25-21"},{"slug":"us-winning-the-race-america-s-ai-action-plan","id":"AIPT-POL-0235","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0235","title":"Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan","short_title":"Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan","jurisdiction":"us","instrument_type":"strategy","status":"adopted","is_binding":false,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"The White House (Office of Science and Technology Policy)","summary_plain":"America's AI Action Plan is the federal AI strategy mandated by Executive Order 14179. It lists more than 90 policy actions grouped under three pillars: accelerating innovation (including removing regulatory barriers), building AI infrastructure such as data centres and chip fabrication with streamlined permitting, and leading internationally through AI exports and security measures. It was released with accompanying executive orders on federal procurement, data-centre permitting and AI exports.","adopted_on":"2025-07-23","in_force_on":null,"applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26","reviewed_by":"Bhaskar Bhatt","content_version":1,"review_status":"verified","confidence_level":"high","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:25+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-winning-the-race-america-s-ai-action-plan"}]}