In the first half of 2025, 34 states in the US introduced over 250 health-related bills focusing on AI. These bills generally fall into four categories: disclosure requirements, consumer protection, insurers' use of AI, and clinicians' use of AI. Disclosure bills require AI developers to provide necessary information. Consumer protection measures aim to prevent discrimination and ensure users can contest decisions. Insurers' bills oversee AI's role in health care payment decisions, while clinical use bills regulate AI in diagnosing and treating patients. Additionally, facial recognition technologies present privacy and bias issues, prompting laws in 15 states by the end of 2024 to mitigate their potential harms.
In the first half of 2025, 34 states introduced over 250 AI-related health bills. The bills generally fall into four categories: disclosure requirements, consumer protection, insurers' use of AI, and clinicians' use of AI.
Bills covering insurers provide oversight of the payers' use of AI to make decisions about health care approvals and payments. And bills about clinical uses of AI regulate use of the technology in diagnosing and treating patients.
Facial recognition technologies pose significant privacy challenges as well as risks from potential biases. These technologies have exhibited biases against people of color and often are considered a threat to civil liberties.
By the end of 2024, 15 states in the US had enacted laws to limit the potential harms from facial recognition, with requirements aimed at protecting individual autonomy against government interference.
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