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In 2024, Colorado passed legislation to, supposedly, protect consumers from discrimination by artificial intelligence (AI). Arguably, the law does more to require the incorporation of diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology (DEI) into the growing technology than to protect people from anything. That has the White House worried that state and local micromanagers will cripple innovation with politicized mandates. In response, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to standardize and limit AI regulation across the country. It’s a promising approach, but it needs firmer support from congressional action.

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The Colorado law imposes on those who develop and deploy AI a “duty to avoid algorithmic discrimination” defined as “any condition in which the use of an artificial intelligence system results in an unlawful differential treatment or impact that disfavours an individual or group of individuals on the basis of” a laundry list of protected racial, sexual, and other statuses.

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The law includes significant compliance and reporting requirements that could easily induce AI developers to build all sorts of preferences into the system to avoid offending any member of a protected class. The mandates also create substantial red tape hurdles to entering the field — so much for starting a new project in your garage, unless you build an addition for lawyers.

Concerned that they might have created a bureaucratic monster, state lawmakers considered several revisions. The only one that passed, however, did nothing more than delay implementation from Feb. 1, 2026, to June 30, 2026. Colorado isn’t a big deal by itself, but plenty of people hoping........

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