Evidence
Prosecutors use new deepfake laws in the US and UK and old computer crime laws in China
| Date | Case | Country | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2025 | Florida AI CSAM guilty plea | United States | Producer of thousands of AI abuse images pleaded guilty to federal charges | Source |
| Dec 2025 to Mar 2026 | Yizheng AI face-swap case | China | 36 sentenced for using AI to beat WeChat and QQ face recognition | Source |
| Apr 2026 | First Take It Down Act conviction | United States | Columbus man pleaded guilty to cyberstalking with AI images | Source |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Crime and Policing Act 2026 | United Kingdom | New offense for tools that generate child abuse images | Source |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Supreme People's Court guidance on AI misuse | China | 24 articles on face swaps, voice cloning and doxing | Source |
Registry
Three registry incidents drew regulator or court action relevant to criminal law
| Incident | Date | Regulator or court action |
|---|---|---|
| Uber Test Vehicle Kills Pedestrian in Tempe | Mar 2018 | Arizona suspended Uber's testing on March 26, 2018. Yavapai County declined to charge Uber in March 2019. NTSB adopted its findings on November 19, 2019. The backup operator pleaded guilty to endangerment in July 2023 and received three years of supervised probation. |
| Nx Malware Turns AI Coding Tools Against Their Users | Aug 2025 | None reported. |
| Chinese State Group Runs Espionage Through Claude Code | Sep 2025 | On November 26, 2025, the House Homeland Security Committee asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify. |
Rules
AI is not a legal subject anywhere; liability falls on people who build and deploy it
| Rule | Jurisdiction | What it requires | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Take It Down Act | US federal | Criminalizes nonconsensual intimate images; 48-hour removal | Platform duty from May 19, 2026 |
| Crime and Policing Act 2026, s.72 | UK | Offense to make or supply abuse-image tools | Royal Assent Apr 29, 2026 |
| EU AI Act Article 5 as amended | EU | Bans AI generating intimate imagery or CSAM | Applies Dec 2, 2026 |
| PRC Criminal Law applied to AI | China | AI fraud prosecuted as intrusion, data or personal-information crimes | Ongoing |
Status colors: green in force, blue voluntary standard or framework, amber adopted and phasing in, gray draft or pending, red withdrawn.
Record
Page Record
- Datasets
- ai_governance_evidence.csv (5 rows); ai_rules.csv (245 rows); registry incidents (3 linked)
- Key sources
- Florida AI CSAM guilty plea
Yizheng AI face-swap case
First Take It Down Act conviction
Crime and Policing Act 2026
Supreme People's Court guidance on AI misuse - Last verified
- October 2026