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Browse federal authorities by instrument type. Individual articles contain legal details, dated status records, and sources.

== Enacted laws ==
* [[TAKE IT DOWN Act]]
* [[National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020]]
* [[AI in Government Act of 2020]]
* [[AI Training Act]]
* [[Advancing American AI Act]]
* [[NDAA FY2024 AI Provisions]]
* [[NDAA FY2025 AI Provisions]]
* [[NDAA FY2026 AI Provisions]]

== Proposed legislation ==
* [[AI Emergency Button Act]] — September 16, 2026: objection blocks unanimous-consent passage of the proposed human-controlled shutdown requirement.
* [[Ratepayer Protection Act (119th Congress)|Ratepayer Protection Act (H.R. 9340)]] — House-passed September 16, 2026; proposed state consideration of data-center energy-cost standards.
* [[Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act]] — September 3, 2026: Sanders and Casar announce proposed superintelligence ban.
* [[Stop Rogue AI Act]] — September 9, 2026: sponsors announce introduction of AI-agent security bill.
* [[Doctors Not AI Act (119th Congress)]] — September 1, 2026: bipartisan Doctors Not AI Act introduced.
* [[AI Advertising Disclosure Act (119th Congress)]] — August 24, 2026: federal bill proposes sponsored-content disclosures for AI tools.
* [[Children's Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act of 2026]] — August 5, 2026: Senate Commerce advances bipartisan AI-toy child-safety bill.
* [[Protecting Patients from Automated Denials Act (119th Congress)]] — July 24, 2026: bipartisan bill would require physician review of AI-assisted Medicare Advantage denials.
* [[FRONTIER Act (119th Congress)]] — July 23, 2026: bipartisan lawmakers introduce FRONTIER Act.
* [[CHATBOT Act (119th Congress)]] — April 28, 2026: Senators introduce CHATBOT Act.

== Regulations and executive actions ==
* [[Accelerating Access to Veterans’ Benefits and Employment Opportunities|Veterans’ benefits and employment executive order]] — Signed September 8, 2026; directs AI benefit tools and records-sharing improvements.
* [[Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure]]
* [[Executive Order 14179]]
* [[Executive Order 14319]]
* [[Launching the Genesis Mission]]
* [[Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence]]
* [[Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack]]
* [[Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer with Artificial Intelligence]]

== Guidance and frameworks ==
=== Government-wide policy ===
* [[OMB Memorandum M-25-21]] — Federal agency AI use.
* [[OMB Memorandum M-25-22]] — Federal AI procurement.

=== Voluntary frameworks ===
* [[NIST AI Risk Management Framework]] — General AI risk management.
* [[NIST Generative AI Profile]] — Generative-AI companion guidance.

=== Strategy ===
* [[America's AI Action Plan]]

== Court guidance ==
* [[United States federal judiciary AI guidance]] — interim safeguards for court use of AI; policy-work progress reported September 17, 2026.

== Policy overviews ==
* [[United States policy on catastrophic AI risk]]

== Related people and scholarship ==
* [[Alondra Nelson#Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights|Alondra Nelson]] — the 2022 White House AI Bill of Rights blueprint and rights-based governance.
* [[Cary Coglianese]] — administrative law and government use of algorithms.
* [[Lina Khan]] — former FTC chair; competition and consumer protection in AI markets.

== Additional federal records ==
[[Federal AI Authorities Archive|Earlier federal bill, guidance, and executive-order records]] — dated coverage and source leads retained from the former directory.

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