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Regulating artificial intelligence presents major challenges to lawmakers, including its unprecedented speed of development, its as yet unrealized capabilities and the difficulty of defining universal standards across applications.
Our U.S. Congress has yet to pass a comprehensive, sweeping federal AI regulatory law. Colorado was the first state in the nation to pass a comprehensive law regulating artificial intelligence in May 2024. The legislation placed obligations on developers and deployers of high-risk AI. That 2024 law was repealed and replaced with a significantly revised regulatory framework in the 2026 legislative session.
Indivisible Littleton is pleased to present AI policy expert Dhivahari Vivek, who will offer an overview of the AI and tech legislation landscape in Colorado, focusing on the state legislature’s agenda during the 2026 session. She will explain key issues at the heart of those bills and outline the policy priorities and overall trends regarding technology legislation in Colorado.
Dhivahari Vivek is the inaugural AI and Technology Policy Fellow with the Institute for Science and Policy. Her prior research background is in privacy, surveillance and algorithmic accountability issues. She currently works as a resident AI and tech policy researcher with CO Legislative Council staff, the nonpartisan research wing of the CO General Assembly. In her work, she answers research requests and questions from members of the Colorado General Assembly on tech and AI issues, and creates publicly available policy research educating legislators, staff and the general public on everything they need to understand Colorado’s current tech policy priorities.
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