“In 2024 alone, 31 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands enacted AI-related legislation or resolutions, and at least 27 states passed deepfake laws.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
In 2024 alone, 31 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands enacted AI-related legislation or resolutions, and at least 27 states passed deepfake laws.
Assessment: Supported Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, When it Comes to AI Policy, Congress Shouldn’t Cut States off at the Knees, paragraph 14.
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- legislation or resolutions (scope, stated by the speaker)
- at least 27 states (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- In 2024 alone
- 31 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands
- AI-related legislation or resolutions
- at least 27 states
- deepfake laws
Our interpretation
- Count distinct states with enacted AI legislation or adopted resolutions during calendar 2024, with the two territories listed separately.
- The deepfake threshold counts states, not individual laws.
- Deepfake laws include sexual imagery, child-abuse imagery, impersonation, and election-related measures; the claim does not restrict the count to elections.
- The ordinary reading is a reported legislative tally, not a claim that all enactments were comprehensive regulatory statutes.
Counts as supported if: A reliable 2024 legislative tally reports 31 states and both named territories adopting AI legislation or resolutions, and at least 27 states enacting deepfake legislation during that year.
Counts as contradicted if: Comparable records establish a different AI jurisdiction count or fewer than 27 states enacting deepfake legislation during 2024. A narrower election-only count would not contradict the broader deepfake claim.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Supported
The dated evidence matches what the claim committed to, under the criteria frozen before grading.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
The contemporaneous legislators' letter reports both figures expressly for 2024. Its coverage includes several kinds of deepfake legislation, so a smaller election-only tally would not rebut it. Support rests on the reported tally, with a limitation concerning the exact year-end total.
Limitations
- The source is an advocacy letter by participating legislators, not an independent audit.
- The NCSL tracker could not be read and is not used as decisive evidence.
- The source establishes a December 12 tally rather than an independently verified final December 31 count.
Evidence (1 item)
Supports the claim: IAPP; authored by the Multistate AI Policymaker Working Group,
Thirty-one states
Why it matters here: The legislators' letter states both numbers and immediately identifies examples as 2024 enactments. It predates Marcus's post and is not his own writing.
- Publisher
- IAPP; authored by the Multistate AI Policymaker Working Group
- Kind of source
- Secondary summary
- Describes events of
- Public from
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, When it Comes to AI Policy, Congress Shouldn’t Cut States off at the Knees
In 2024 alone, 31 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands enacted AI-related legislation or resolutions, and at least 27 states passed deepfake laws.
- Where
- paragraph 14
- Published
- 2025-05-14
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-when-it-comes-to-ai-policy-congress-e0d4bd-a1: Current. Outcome: Supported. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
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