As legislation on artificial intelligence increases across the United States, the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign launched a portal that offers a centralized resource for tracking, evaluating and comparing bills related to AI.
Released on March 2, the CNTR AISLE portal is a “one-stop shop” mapping out AI legislation, according to CNTR Director Suresh Venkatasubramanian. He added the portal was created to help understand legislative responses to the development of AI.
“At some point, there were over 1,000 bills being proposed” in the United States, he told The Herald. “We felt it was important to start trying to make some sense of this landscape.”
The idea for the portal initially emerged in 2024. Venkatasubramanian and his team began developing “crude, internal versions” of the portal and started policy analysis, he said. Starting last fall, the team focused on developing a “structured form” for the data.
The portal houses a “bill library” listing all proposed state and federal legislation regulating AI.
Each bill is reviewed by evaluators to create a profile of the bill with a spider graph that scores the legislation on its relevance to several policy areas. The evaluators do not grade bills, but characterize them based on “questions that help us tease out what a bill has in it,” Venkatasubramanian said.
“This is not advocacy. We are not trying to push for a point of view,” he added. “Our goal is to provide a broad understanding of what bills are talking about.”
According to Tomo Lazovich, AISLE’s policy director and assistant professor of the practice in AI governance and policy, the team aims to find common trends between bills and gaps in the legislation.
“We don’t want to just be following the trends and tracking what’s there,” they said. “We also want to be thinking a little bit critically about what should be in some of these bills and then trying to figure out, in a data-driven way, if they’re actually there or not.”
With the increased accessibility of these bills through the portal, Lazovich said that they hoped the database could give states the tool to “coalesce around particular” parts of the policies that they like.
AISLE is divided into multiple teams, according to Lazovich. The policy team develops questionnaire models that guide evaluators and analyzes the data that come out of the surveys. Meanwhile, the product team oversees software development and project management, and the data team manages bill intake. AISLE also has a communications team that focuses on outreach efforts.
The project consists of many undergraduates who work across AISLE’s teams. Venkatasubramanian described the level of student involvement as “very high,” adding that “students have been heavily involved in this process from day one.”
Emily Hong ’26.5 and Dre Boyd-Weatherly ’26, who are both policy analysts at the CNTR AISLE legislation lab, help manage the lab’s daily logistics. The two also “think about the larger questions we want to answer, about what we want to extract from these bills,” Hong said.
“Now that we have our first round of data (and) the platform that’s launched, the policy team” is looking toward expanding their legislation analysis, she added. Hong and Boyd-Weatherly are also working on drafting papers for conferences and to make information available to academics.
CNTR Program Manager Meredith Mendola said the audience of the database includes regular citizens, who may want to gain a sense of the different facets of the AI legislation.
“It’s a transparency aspect that you don’t normally get anywhere else,” they said.
As the database continues to develop, the team aims to incorporate AI-powered rapid insights and comparative analysis across states, according to Mendola.
According to Venkatasubramanian, these tools could make the database more accessible to researchers, policymakers, the media and members of the public. Looking forward, the project could potentially extend to an international lens, he added.
