Colorado Proposes Narrowing of Landmark AI Law
Key highlights this week:
We’re tracking 995 bills in all 50 states related to AI during the 2025 legislative session.
Kansas enacts a sexual deepfake bill.
The governor of Tennessee signs one deepfake bill into law while lawmakers send another to his desk.
San Diego, California, became the latest city to prohibit the use of AI-driven software from being used to set rental housing prices.
And lawmakers introduced amendments to Colorado’s first-in-the-nation broad algorithmic discrimination law, which is the topic of this week’s deep dive.
In 2024, Colorado became the first state to enact a broad algorithmic discrimination law regulating high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems with the passage of SB 205. Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed the bill “with reservations”, vowing there would be changes to the law before it went into effect. This week, we saw the first concrete proposal to amend that law with the introduction of SB 318 by Sen. Robert Rodriguez (D), who drafted the original AI law. The proposed changes would significantly pare back the law, loosening its strictest provisions while preserving core protections against algorithmic discrimination.
We wrote about Colorado’s original AI bill when it passed last spring. The measure places obligations on developers and deployers of “high-risk” AI models to prevent algorithmic discrimination. The law would also require certain disclosures to consumers when high-risk AI systems are used as a “substantial factor” in “consequential decisions,” with an opportunity to appeal an adverse decision with human review.
