{"id":214568,"date":"2026-05-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/colorado-amends-its-artificial-intelligence-law-substantially-reducing-obligations-on-employers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:00:00","slug":"colorado-amends-its-artificial-intelligence-law-substantially-reducing-obligations-on-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/colorado-amends-its-artificial-intelligence-law-substantially-reducing-obligations-on-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Amends its Artificial Intelligence Law, Substantially Reducing Obligations on Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/news-analysis\/asap\/colorado-amends-its-artificial-intelligence-law-substantially-reducing\">Colorado Amends its Artificial Intelligence Law, Substantially Reducing Obligations on Employers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/news-analysis\/asap\/colorado-amends-its-artificial-intelligence-law-substantially-reducing\">https:\/\/www.littler.com\/news-analysis\/asap\/colorado-amends-its-artificial-intelligence-law-substantially-reducing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.littler.com\">www.littler.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colorado&#8217;s governor enacted an amendment to reduce the compliance burden on employers under its new AI law, with the law taking effect from January 1, 2027.<\/li>\n<li>The CO AI Act applies to employers using &#8220;covered automated decision-making technology&#8221; for consequential employment decisions which are not routine or related to identity verification, cybersecurity, sanctions compliance.<\/li>\n<li>The law requires employers to: give pre-use notice of ADMT use, implement an adverse action process, and retain records about ADMT for three years.<\/li>\n<li>The CO AI Act clarifies developers&#8217; and deployers&#8217; liability for algorithmic discrimination in a consequential decision, holding each party liable for their relative fault.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike previous Colorado law, the CO AI Act does not create a private right of action, and only empowers the state attorney general to enforce it.<\/li>\n<li>Employers can benefit from the elimination of many additional, stricter requirements from previous Colorado AI laws.<\/li>\n<li>The CO AI Act positions Colorado among a few U.S. states with comprehensive AI laws, while numerous bills are under consideration nationwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Amends its Artificial Intelligence Law, Substantially Reducing Obligations on Employers https:\/\/www.littler.com\/news-analysis\/asap\/colorado-amends-its-artificial-intelligence-law-substantially-reducing Publish Date: 2026-05-15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}