# Developers 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. 6-1-1702(1)

## What the duty requires

A developer of a high-risk AI system must use reasonable care to protect consumers from any known or reasonably foreseeable risk of algorithmic discrimination arising from the intended and contracted uses of the system. A developer that meets the documentation, public-statement and Attorney General disclosure duties in the rest of section 6-1-1702 benefits from a rebuttable presumption that it used reasonable care.

## What an organisation does about it

Run and record a discrimination-risk assessment for each high-risk system before release and keep it current so the statutory presumption can be claimed.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Accuracy, robustness, fairness and security testing (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/accuracy-robustness-security-testing
- AI risk assessment and lifecycle risk register (satisfies): 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-developer-reasonable-care
- **Official source**: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-205
- **Provision**: C.R.S. 6-1-1702(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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