IDisclosure
Labels above a threshold, silence below. Where each state drew the line.
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→ view in trackerThe AI Bill of Rights.
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U.S. AI legislation map
Six rights, at a glance
Tracker counts as of 2026-04-21 · Methodology →
IIConsent
Training-data consent or session-level consent — state drafts chose opposite defaults.
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→ view in trackerIIIMental health
AI-only therapy: banned outright, licensure disclosure, or undefined.
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→ view in trackerIVLikeness
Voice, face, gesture — what a model may take of you. Parody carve-outs vary.
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→ view in trackerVElections
Sixty-day or primary-to-general windows, disclosure or prohibition — which, and when.
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→ view in trackerVIEnforcement
Attorney General, sector agency, or private right of action — who gets to pick the fight.
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→ view in trackerThis week’s moves
Three most recent legislative events on the tracker.
Six rights, in brief
State legislatures wrote the first rules for consumer-grade AI. Six rights emerged from those sessions — different definitions, different thresholds, different teeth. This is what they chose, and what they left out.
IDisclosure
Disclosure rules draw a threshold. Above it, an AI system owes a label; below it, silence. Where each state set that line — a political ad during an election window, a résumé screener, every consumer chatbot — tells you whose attention that legislature was protecting first.
IIConsent
Consent laws govern when a developer must ask — not whether collection happens. The split is between training-data consent, gathered once at scale, and session-level consent, asked each time. State drafts chose opposite defaults, and the interop cost falls on whoever shipped first.
IIIMental health
Mental-health-specific AI rules carve around a single word: therapist. Some bills ban AI-only therapy outright; others require licensure disclosure; most don’t agree on where “tool” ends and “provider” begins. The definitions matter because the penalties follow them.
IVLikeness
Likeness statutes cover who you are to a model — voice, face, gesture, signature gait — and treat it as an estate-survivable right. Whether political parody is carved out or folded in is a single clause, and it determines whether an ad is protected speech or a forgery.
VElections
Elections rules drop in on a calendar. Each statute sets a window — sixty days, ninety, a primary-to-general stretch — during which synthetic political speech is subject to disclosure or prohibition. The enforcement theory, criminal or civil or administrative, varies more than the window length.
VIEnforcement
Every right above is only as real as its enforcement clause. Some bills hand the power to an Attorney General; others to a sector agency; a few allow a private right of action. The choice shapes both deterrence and response time — and which actor gets to pick the fight.
The Map in Words
Six rights. If you can’t see the map — low vision, screen reader, print page, slow connection — here is the map in prose. Each right above names the obligation, then the states that have signed a bill carrying it, then the states that introduced one and watched it stall.
Disclosure of AI outputs and consent before an AI decides something consequential carry the most signed bills — California, Colorado, and Utah lead both. Protection from likeness theft gained ground after Tennessee’s ELVIS Act; California’s AB 2602 followed. Election-integrity rules signed in Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington before the 2024 cycle. Mental-health guardrails are law in two states and introduced in four more.
Enforcement is the thinnest band on the map. A right that exists on paper but has no office, no budget, and no audit schedule is a right that moves slowly. Most states that require something do not yet fund anyone to check. Where a bill was introduced and died in committee — the matte “stalled” fill on the map — that is a choice the state’s own legislature made, not a delay imposed from elsewhere.
Counts pulled from the ASAI in-house tracker on 2026-04-21. Methodology: see the fact sheet.
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