The SEC and AI since 2023, from its own releases

The SEC's published record on AI since 2023 runs along four lines: a 2023 rule proposal on predictive data analytics, enforcement against false AI claims, a 2025 public roundtable, and the agency's own use of AI, alongside speeches on how disclosure is read by machines. None of the documents below is an AI-specific disclosure rule for public companies. This page lists what each says, in date order, with links; the regulation tracker carries the same documents as rows.

2023: the predictive data analytics proposal

On 2023-07-26 the SEC proposed rules that "would require broker-dealers and investment advisers" to take steps to address conflicts of interest associated with their use of predictive data analytics and similar technologies when they interact with investors.¹ The release says the proposed rules would generally require a firm to evaluate whether its use of certain technologies in investor interactions involves a conflict that places the firm's interests ahead of investors', and to "eliminate, or neutralize the effect of," any such conflicts.¹

The proposal is addressed to brokers and advisers, not to companies' finance functions. The tracker shows it with the status the release itself gives, proposed; this site has not yet opened a later release on its fate, and records nothing further until it does.

2024: disclosure and enforcement

On 2024-02-13 Chair Gary Gensler said in a speech that a company raising money from the public "needs to be truthful about its use of AI and associated risk," and that AI risk disclosures should be particular to the company rather than boilerplate.² On 2024-03-18 the SEC announced settled charges against two investment advisers over false and misleading statements about their use of AI, one of the "AI washing" cases described in the explainer on AI-washing enforcement.³

2025: a new enforcement unit and a roundtable

On 2025-02-20 the SEC announced its Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit, which replaced the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit. The release names "fraud committed using emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning" first among the unit's priority areas.⁴

On 2025-02-28 the SEC announced a public roundtable on AI in the financial industry, to be held on March 27, that would "discuss the risks, benefits, and governance of AI in the financial industry."⁵ When it published the agenda on 2025-03-20, Acting Chairman Mark T. Uyeda encouraged the public "to provide data and other evidence on how artificial intelligence can be used to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation."⁶

2025: AI inside the agency

On 2025-08-01 the SEC announced a task force on AI to "enhance innovation and efficiency in its operations through the responsible use of AI," led by Valerie Szczepanik, named the agency's Chief AI Officer.⁷ Chairman Paul S. Atkins was quoted saying the task force "will empower staff across the SEC with AI-enabled tools and systems."⁷ This is about how the regulator works, not a requirement on filers.

2026: disclosure read by machines

On 2026-09-17 Joshua White, the SEC's Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, gave a speech titled "Information in the Age of AI."⁸ He said that "Financial information increasingly has two audiences: people and machines," and that AI "may also lower some of the costs involved in preparing disclosures."⁸ He also said that as investors, intermediaries, academics and regulators analyze information through automated systems, it becomes more important that information be presented in a form machines can understand reliably.⁸ A speech states the speaker's views, not the Commission's.

What this adds up to

From these releases alone: the SEC has used existing antifraud and marketing rules against false AI claims, has created an enforcement unit that names AI-enabled fraud as a priority, has invited public input through a roundtable, and has put AI to work in its own operations. For what public companies are saying in their filings while this record develops, see the filings stream.