The Colorado Department of Law filed proposed Automated Decision-Making Technology and Conversational Artificial Intelligence Service rules with the Colorado Secretary of State on 11 August 2026. The filing implements Senate Bill 26-189 (the ADMT Act) and House Bill 26-1263 (the Chatbot Safety Act). Both statutes take effect on 1 January 2027. The proposals are at the rulemaking stage, with a formal hearing scheduled for 26 October 2026.
Under the ADMT Act and section 6-1-1705 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, developers and deployers of automated systems that materially influence consequential decisions in employment, housing, credit, and insurance face disclosure and impact assessment obligations. The proposed rules extend these obligations to midstream developers who supply AI components integrated into a deployer's system, define when an automated system 'materially influences' a consequential decision, specify the required content of post-adverse-outcome disclosures, and set the standard for 'meaningful human review.' Under the Chatbot Safety Act, operators of consumer-facing conversational AI services must implement age-assurance mechanisms, disclose affirmatively to users that they are interacting with an AI system rather than a human, restrict content and engagement patterns that simulate emotional dependence in minors, and submit annual reports to the Attorney General on self-harm safeguard effectiveness.
AI developers, midstream platform providers, and deployers of automated employment, credit, or housing decision tools serving Colorado consumers face ADMT Act obligations. Operators of consumer-facing chatbot services accessible to Colorado users must implement disclosures and age-assurance controls ahead of 1 January 2027. Affected businesses should treat the filed proposed rules as the operative compliance benchmark for planning purposes, subject to changes adopted after the October rulemaking hearing.
The formal rulemaking hearing on 26 October 2026 may result in changes to the proposed rules before final adoption. The ADMT Act contains exemptions for lower-risk automated systems, and the proposed rules specify how those exemptions apply in practice. Companies must determine before 1 January 2027 whether their systems fall within an exemption.
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