As Congress declined to act, state lawmakers stepped up to engage with the most pressing AI issues. The Transparency Coalition’s report found legislators in 30 states enacted 115 AI-related laws this year, including chatbot safety laws, frontier AI model protocols, and new definitions of personhood.

Lawmakers in Trenton are considering four significant AI bills in the final stretch of this year’s session. They focus on protecting an individual’s right to their own likeness, disclosing the use of AI in certain media, creating safety regulations around frontier AI models, and holding AI operators accountable for harmful activity.

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties for violating the state’s consumer protection law more than 43 million times. The penalty order came in a case related to the misuse of Facebook data nearly a decade ago.