This presentation will provide a detailed overview of the Colorado AI Act and discuss how it helps to advance consumer privacy both within the State of Colorado and throughout the United States. The Colorado Anti-Discrimination in AI Law (ADAI) will go into effect in February of 2026 obligates developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence to use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination in systems that, when deployed, make consequential decisions that affect fundamental rights. While ADAI imposes obligations on businesses, it also empowers consumers with new rights including the right to notice when interacting with an AI system, the right to correct any inaccurate information that was used to make an adverse decision, an explanation for how the automated decision was made, and the right to human review of an adverse consequential decision.

ADAI builds upon the consumer protections and business obligations that were established in the Colorado Privacy Act, and Colorado's approach may become a model for other states to follow in the future. For now, the law stands alone as the only comprehensive AI governance regulation in the United States. The State of Colorado continues to take a national leadership role in advancing laws that protect and empower consumers, and the Colorado AI Act is the most recent example.