Colorado Senate OKs limits on AI in healthcare, youth issues

(The Center Square) – The Colorado Senate on Friday approved guardrails around artificial intelligence in healthcare and with minors, as well as a near-total ban of AI in therapy.

Three bills, which all passed on their second reading, came amid widespread fears surrounding the rapid and largely unregulated AI boom, and in defiance of an executive order by President Donald Trump telling states to keep AI unregulated.

“It is important that we’re capturing and doing justice, not only for the family, but again creating very powerful policy that will be the strongest in the country,” Sen. Iman Jodeh, D-Arapahoe County, said on the Senate floor about House Bill 26-1263, the minors protection bill she sponsored. “I want Colorado to continue to set that bar for the country and make sure that kids will not be harmed.”

The three AI bills were all approved by a voice vote, although not unanimously. They will all go to one final Senate vote before b...