By Ed Sealover | The Sum & Substance
Developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems are begging a legislative task force to amend definitions and an “untenable” appeals process in Colorado’s AI law — and getting pushback from some groups who feel the law doesn’t regulate enough.
The push-and-pull has played out for two months before the Artificial Intelligence Task Force, a 26-person group of elected officials and citizens put together by Gov. Jared Polis after he signed “with reservations” the most comprehensive AI regulatory law in America. With the regulations not going into place until February 2026, the task force is hearing from myriad groups affected by them and is required to submit a report to the Joint Technology Committee by February 2025 recommending any potential changes to the law.
So far, large and small companies and technology associations all have teed up requests centering on too-vague definitions in the bill that they fear could impact everyone from AI developers whose clients altered their systems to companies offering digital coupons for consumer goods. And while companies ranging in size from Amazon to startups are making the asks, smaller firms particularly argue that the current law is not just a hindrance but a threat to their existence.