Florida’s AI Economy: Regulation, Innovation, and Interstate Competition

As artificial intelligence regulation accelerates across the U.S., states are increasingly shaping not only legal compliance frameworks but also the economic conditions under which AIcompanies, startups, and research institutions operate. While 2025 and 2026 have seen a surge of state-level AIstatutes addressing transparency, elections, consumer protection, and automated decision making, these laws also function as signals, both to industry and to courts, about how innovation should be governed.

This issue examines Florida’s AIeconomy in a comparative context, assessing how Florida’s regulatory posture aligns with emerging state frameworks nationwide and what this means for legal practitioners advising companies, investors, public agencies, and institutions operating in or expanding into the state.