{"id":101005,"date":"2025-08-22T04:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101005\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:32:10","slug":"lawmakers-backtrack-on-ais-get-out-of-jail-free-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101005\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Backtrack On AI\u2019s Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bipartisan group of lawmakers pushing stealth legislation to shield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> giants from lawsuits abruptly backtracked and voted to defang the provision hours after it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/the-plot-to-outlaw-ai-lawsuits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exposed by The Lever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Democratic-controlled Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis (D) had called an <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradonewsline.com\/2025\/08\/21\/colorado-special-session-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">emergency legislative session<\/a> to force lawmakers to consider initiatives rolling back parts of the state\u2019s first-in-the-nation artificial intelligence regulations. One of the bills up for consideration included a seemingly innocuous line that experts say in practice could have prohibited district attorneys, watchdog groups, and citizens from filing consumer-protection lawsuits against AI giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That includes Denver-based Palantir Technologies, a surveillance-tech giant cofounded by one of President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/05\/01\/nx-s1-5372776\/palantir-tech-contracts-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">biggest billionaire boosters<\/a> that the Trump administration has reportedly hired to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/30\/technology\/trump-palantir-data-americans.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">compile data<\/a> on Americans, prompting privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after The Lever\u2019s report on the provision, the legislation was amended to explicitly state that it will not interfere \u201cwith rights available to consumers pursuant to\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/colorado\/title-6\/fair-trade-and-restraint-of-trade\/article-1\/part-1\/section-6-1-113\/#:~:text=(1)%20The%20provisions%20of%20this,of%20such%20deceptive%20trade%20practice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the section<\/a> of the Colorado Protection Act that allows individuals to bring AI-related lawsuits under the law.<\/p>\n<p>            Create a FREE account, or log in. <\/p>\n<p>Registered readers of The Lever get access to a limited number of free articles every month, breaking news alerts, and our Lever Daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bipartisan group of lawmakers pushing stealth legislation to shield artificial intelligence giants from lawsuits abruptly backtracked and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-101005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}