# Deployers must use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Colorado Senate Bill 24-205: Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence (Colorado AI Act)
- **Jurisdiction**: Colorado (United States)
- **Category**: risk_management
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-06-30
- **Provision**: C.R.S. 6-1-1703(1)

## What the duty requires

A deployer of a high-risk AI system must use reasonable care to protect consumers from known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination. A deployer that runs the required risk-management programme, completes impact assessments, gives consumer notices and makes the required disclosures benefits from a rebuttable presumption of reasonable care; some deployers with fewer than 50 employees are relieved of parts of the programme and assessment duties when they rely on the developer's impact assessment.

## What an organisation does about it

Treat each consequential-decision use of AI as a governed system with an owner, a risk record and the statutory paperwork so the presumption is available.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI governance policy and accountability structure (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-governance-policy-and-accountability
- AI risk assessment and lifecycle risk register (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-risk-assessment

## Parent instrument

- Colorado Senate Bill 24-205: Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence (Colorado AI Act)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-colorado-ai-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-colorado-ai-act.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-colorado-ai-act-deployer-reasonable-care
- **Official source**: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-205
- **Provision**: C.R.S. 6-1-1703(1)
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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