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Relevant for AI governance researchers and practitioners tracking U.S. state-level AI regulation; Colorado's law is a landmark precedent that may influence other states and federal policy on high-risk AI oversight.
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The American Bar Association provides a legal analysis of Colorado's SB 205, the first U.S. state law specifically regulating high-risk artificial intelligence systems. The article examines the law's requirements for developers and deployers of AI systems that make consequential decisions, including obligations around transparency, bias mitigation, and consumer rights. It serves as a practical legal guide for businesses navigating compliance with this pioneering state-level AI governance framework.
Key Points
- •Colorado SB 205 (enacted 2024) is the first U.S. state law targeting high-risk AI systems used in consequential decisions like employment, housing, and credit.
- •The law imposes duties on both AI developers and deployers to use reasonable care to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination.
- •Requires developers to provide deployers with documentation about AI system risks, limitations, and intended use cases.
- •Deployers must implement risk management policies, conduct impact assessments, and disclose AI use to affected consumers.
- •The ABA analysis highlights compliance challenges and ambiguities businesses must navigate, with enforcement by the Colorado Attorney General.
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### Summary
- On May 17, 2024, Colorado enacted SB 205, which regulates the use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems by developers and deployers (e.g., users of such systems) to protect consumers from unfavorable and unlawful differential treatment through adverse decision-making.
- The legislation defines an artificial intelligence system as “high risk” when it is deployed to make, or is a substantial factor in making, a consequential decision that has a material legal or similarly significant effect on access to or terms of a specific set of opportunities and services, such as employment.
- Colorado SB 205 requires developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems to comply with extensive monitoring and reporting requirements to demonstrate reasonable care has been taken to prevent known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination.
- The bill requires compliance on or after February 1, 2026.
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- What Is an Artificial Intelligence System?
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- Affirmative Obligations for Deployers
- Website Disclosures
- Exemptions
On May 17, 2024, Colorado enacted [SB 205](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_205_signed.pdf), broadly regulating the use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems to protect consumers from unfavorable and unlawful differential treatment. The bill, which requires compliance on or after February 1, 2026, declares that both developers and users of high-risk artificial intelligence systems must comply with extensive monitoring and reporting requirements to demonstrate reasonable care has been taken to prevent algorithmic discrimination. A violation of the requirements set forth in Colorado SB 205 constitutes an unfair trade practice under Colorado’s Consumer Protection Act.
## What Is an Artificial Intelligence System?
Colorado SB 205 defines “artificial intelligence system” as “any machine-based system that, for any explicit or implicit objective, infers from the inputs the system receives how to generate outputs, including content, decisions, predictions, or recommendations, that can influence physical or virtual environments.”
The artificial intelligence system becomes “high risk” when it is deployed to make, or is a substantial factor in making, a consequential decision that has a material legal or similarly significant effect on the provision or denial to any consumer of, or the cost or terms of: (a) education enrollment or an education opportunity; (b) employment or an employment opportunity; (c) a financial or lending service; (d) an essential government service; (e) health-care services; (f) housing; (g) insurance; or (h) a legal service.
A high-risk artificial intelligence system does not include, among others, technology that communicates with consumers in natural language for the purpose of providing use
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