In 2025, the European Union (EU) has enforced the AI Act, which forms a comprehensive regulatory framework categorizing the AI systems according to the levels of risks. This legislation introduces transparency and accountability and ethics in AI development and deployment to create reliable artificial intelligence.
The United States pursues a decentralized approach, where each of the 50 states presents some law related to AI. California has had notable major AI legislative acts that apply to businesses engaging in AI-based processing of personal data, medical care institutions and providers, establishing California as a leader in the domain of AI regulations and data privacy.
China has implemented the Interim Measures of the Management of Generative AI Services to focus on state-run development and prioritize ethical provisions so that the AI meets the national standards and does not pose any threats to the population.
India has been working on implementing wide-ranging AI regulations that will help strike a balance between the effects of innovation and societal effects, providing protection against unethical use of AI and data.
Globally, there is an appeal to have concerted action in AI regulation. The chief of technology at the United Nations has said that disparate rules and regulations might further exacerbate risks and the disparities between nations and so nations should take collective steps to have a standardized set of guidelines to govern AI.
Conclusion
The multinational picture of AI regulation in 2025 includes disparities in regulatory frameworks with the proposed EU AI Act on one end of the scale and decentralized state government regulatory frameworks in the U.S. and state-controlled regulatory frameworks in China on the other end of the scale. Although both India stands as an example to focus on ethical methods of AI and the UN demands cooperation, there is no single international framework that might take into consideration the consequences of AI technology impacting the world in many ways.
