Strengthen Colorado's AI Act

"Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Landlords use it to decide who gets a home. Insurance companies use it to decide who gets health care. ICE uses it to decide who must submit to location tracking by electronic monitoring. Bosses use it to decide who gets fired, and to predict who is organizing a union or planning to quit. Bosses even use AI to assess the body language and voice tone of job candidates."

"In 2024, Colorado enacted a limited but crucial step forward against automated abuse: the AI Act (S.B. 24-205). We commend the labor, digital rights, and other advocates who have worked to enact and protect it. Colorado recently delayed the Act's effective date to June 30, 2026. EFF looks forward to enforcement of the Colorado AI Act, opposes weakening or further delaying it, and supports strengthening it."

"The Colorado AI Act is a good step in the right direction. It regulates "high risk AI systems," meaning machine-based technologies that are a "substantial factor" in deciding whether a person will have access to education, employment, loans, government services, healthcare, housing, insurance, or legal services. An AI-system is a "substantial factor" in those decisions if it assisted in the decision and could alter its outcome. The Act's protections include transparency, due process, and impact assessments."

Powerful institutions deploy automated decision-making across housing, insurance, immigration enforcement, and employment, often producing discrimination by gender, race, and other protected statuses. In 2024, Colorado enacted the AI Act (S.B. 24-205) as a limited but important response to automated abuse and delayed its effective date to June 30, 2026. EFF supports enforcement, opposes weakening or further delay, and advocates strengthening the law. The Act regulates high-risk AI systems that are a substantial factor in decisions affecting access to education, employment, loans, government services, healthcare, housing, insurance, or legal services. The law mandates transparency, due process, and impact assessments and requires developers and deployers to provide public information and to notify affected individuals.

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