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Exploring AI legislation in Congress with AGORA: Risks, Harms, and Governance Strategies – Emerging Technology Observatory

Using AGORA to explore AI legislation enacted by U.S. Congress since 2020

Mina Narayanan

and Sonali Subbu Rathinam

July 29, 2025

In the second installation of our blog series analyzing 147 AI-related laws enacted by Congress between January 2020 and March 2025 from AGORA, we explore the governance strategies, risk-related concepts, and harms addressed in the legislation. In the first blog, we showed that the majority of these AI-related legislative documents were drawn from National Defense Authorization Acts and apply to national security contexts.

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