The Evolving AI Legal and Policy Landscape: Mid-2025 Update

With the launch of Crowell’s Evolving AI Legal and Policy Landscape tracker in 2023, we formed a team of attorneys and policy professionals tasked with monitoring and reporting on the most notable developments around AI. Join us for a roundtable discussion regarding worldwide legal and policy developments since July 2024 and what you need to know in 2025.

Our presenters Jillian Ambrose, Sari Depreeuw, Kate Growley, and Linda Malek will explore:

• Challenges and Questions Related to Generative AI’s Use
• Key Worldwide 2025 YTD Legal and Policy Developments Regarding AI
• What’s Next: Notable Proposed Legislation and Regulations
• Best Practices: Compliance and Awareness Going Forward

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a wave of worldwide attention on the governance of AI, at all levels, driven by technological advancements in generative AI and evolving legal questions regarding the extent to which existing laws and regulations apply to AI. Changing administrations have added to the complex task of assessing and predicting the regulatory landscape. Just since our July 2024 update:

• The European Commission published guidelines on the definition of “artificial intelligence system” and on prohibited AI practices under the AI Act.
• President Trump revoked President Biden's October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
• Numerous US states have introduced and passed legislation regarding AI, with a focus on health insurance, environment, and system development.
• The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which addresses the issue of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII).
• Global powers like Canada, China, France, and India have issued new AI frameworks and guidelines.