Jeff HassemerCEO, FirestarterMarketing.ai · The Strategy Architect | Agency Accelerator | Architecting Bold Strategies | AI + Marketing That Scales | Founder @ FireStarterMarketing.AI

The coming patchwork of AI laws #substack #shorts

7 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker explains how existing AI legislation has primarily aimed to protect humans from AI, but anticipates a rapid expansion of regulatory activity. He predicts that more states and nations will create their own AI laws, resulting in a fragmented "patchwork" of rules. This regulatory spread will not only cover traditional AI safety concerns but will also begin to address emerging applications such as agentic workflows and deceptive advertising that have so far been largely untouched. The overall message is that AI regulation will become deeper, more varied, and will increasingly affect new use‑cases beyond the original protective focus.

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No, it's interesting to me where we see this when we start to get more into workflow and doing agentic, you know, you kind of step outside of the marketing. And this is where obviously these laws have been focused is how do you protect humans essentially from AI, you know, from a legislative perspective and how they see AI, which makes a lot of sense. But we're going to just see this start to bleed not only more and more states and more nations creating their own patchwork of laws around this and regulations around this, but also the use cases, you know, so you're going to start getting into what is deceptive advertising via AI and things like that that really haven't been touched by a lot of these yet. So it's only going to get deeper. Good point.