AI Regulation & Global AI Law Tracker

Track global AI regulations, compliance deadlines, and risk tiers including the EU AI Act, US Federal & State AI laws, UK safety guidelines.

Displaying 12 major AI regulations and legislation frameworks across 6 global jurisdictions.
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Interactive EU AI Act Risk Tier Diagnostic

Determine your artificial intelligence application's regulatory category, prohibited status, or compliance obligations under EU Regulation 2024/1689.

SPECIFIC TRANSPARENCY RISK (ART. 50) Permitted with Disclosure Obligations

Customer Service AI & Generative Content

Users must be clearly informed in a timely manner that they are interacting with an artificial intelligence system (unless obvious from context). Synthetic audio, image, and video outputs must carry machine-readable watermarking.

• Transparency Notice: Inform human users they are conversing with AI.
• Synthetic Content Tagging: Mark synthetic media outputs in detectable formats.
• Enforcement Timeline: Compliance required by August 2026.

Key Regulatory Milestones & Enforcement Roadmap

August 2, 2024 In Effect

EU AI Act Formal Entry into Force

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 entered into force across all 27 EU member states, activating the European AI Office.

February 2, 2025 Enacted

Prohibited AI Practices Ban Takes Effect

Strict prohibition of unacceptable risk systems: cognitive behavioral manipulation, social scoring, untargeted facial recognition scraping, and workplace emotion recognition.

August 2, 2025 Upcoming

General Purpose AI (GPAI) Governance

Providers of foundation models and systemic risk GPAI must comply with copyright transparency, technical documentation, and model evaluation protocols.

August 2, 2026 Upcoming

Full High-Risk AI Obligations Live

Comprehensive conformity assessments, fundamental rights impact assessments (FRIA), CE marking, and EU database registration become mandatory for Annex III high-risk applications.

August 2, 2027 Upcoming

Regulated Sector Embedded Systems (Annex I)

High-risk AI systems embedded as safety components in existing regulated products (aviation, automotive, medical equipment) reach final enforcement.

About this tool

How to use it

  1. Filter the Global Laws directory by jurisdiction (EU, US Federal/State, UK, China, G7) or legal status.
  2. Use the EU AI Act Risk Checker to evaluate where your AI software falls across the 4 primary risk categories (Prohibited, High-Risk, Transparency, Minimal).
  3. Review mandatory compliance obligations, including technical documentation, human oversight, and data governance.
  4. Check the Key Compliance Deadlines timeline to track statutory enforcement dates between 2024 and 2027.

Why it matters

Artificial intelligence regulation is evolving rapidly worldwide. Violations of landmark legislation like the EU AI Act carry penalties of up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover, making timely compliance auditing essential for software developers and enterprise deployers.

When to use it

Use this tracker when architecting AI applications, conducting vendor compliance reviews, preparing corporate governance policies, or scoping deployment requirements across international borders.

Common questions

What are the four risk categories under the EU AI Act?

The EU AI Act classifies AI into: 1) Unacceptable Risk (strictly prohibited practices like social scoring), 2) High-Risk (critical infrastructure, employment, medical devices), 3) Specific Transparency Risk (chatbots, deepfakes, synthetic media), and 4) Minimal Risk (video games, spam filters).

Does the EU AI Act apply to companies located outside Europe?

Yes. The regulation has extraterritorial reach. It applies to providers placing AI systems on the EU market, as well as deployers outside the EU if the output produced by their AI system is used within the EU.

What constitutes General Purpose AI (GPAI)?

GPAI models (foundation models like GPT-4, Claude, or Llama) are trained on broad data at scale and can competently perform a wide range of distinct tasks. Models trained with more than 10^25 FLOPs face additional systemic risk evaluations.

What is the penalty for non-compliance under the EU AI Act?

Fines are tiered: up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover for prohibited AI violations, up to €15 million or 3% for high-risk non-compliance, and up to €7.5 million or 1.5% for supplying incorrect information to authorities.