# Developers must document high-risk systems and disclose known risks

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Colorado Senate Bill 24-205: Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence (Colorado AI Act)
- **Jurisdiction**: Colorado (United States)
- **Category**: technical_documentation
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Provision**: C.R.S. 6-1-1702

## In brief

Developers must document high-risk systems and disclose known risks is a legal requirement under the Colorado AI Act in Colorado (United States) (C.R.S. 6-1-1702). The record carries 2 evidence examples and mappings to 1 framework. In practice: Prepare a deployer information pack and a public high-risk systems statement.

## What the duty requires

Developers must make available to deployers a general statement of intended uses, documentation of known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination, training-data summaries, limitations, performance evaluation and mitigation measures, and information needed for deployer impact assessments, and must publish a public statement describing their high-risk systems and how they manage discrimination risks.

## What an organisation does about it

Prepare a deployer information pack and a public high-risk systems statement.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Training-data provenance and copyright register (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/training-data-provenance-and-copyright-register
- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/technical-documentation-and-model-cards

## 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

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0087 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0087; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-colorado-developer-documentation-and-disclosure
- **Official source**: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-205
- **Provision**: C.R.S. 6-1-1702
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Developers must document high-risk systems and disclose known risks (Colorado AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0087, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0087 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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