Colorado Delays AI Law to June 2026 – Top 10 Questions for Employers and Tech Developers
Colorado lawmakers couldn’t reach a compromise to refine the nation’s first statewide AI antidiscrimination law and instead agreed yesterday to delay the law’s implementation date from February to June 2026 – all in hopes that next year’s legislative session will yield substantive changes before it takes effect. There were plenty of twists and turns during the brief special legislative session that just wrapped. For a brief time it appeared lawmakers were going to agree to a watered-down version that would have cut tech developers a big break but still saddled employers and businesses with plenty of obligations . But after negotiations broke down, the legislature decided to kick the can down the road and look to the 2026 legislative session as the time to work out potential revisions. What are the 10 biggest unanswered questions we have about Colorado’s groundbreaking law? Quick Resource Center Colorado passed the nation’s first comprehensive AI antidiscrimination law in 2024, o...