{"id":16003,"date":"2026-04-24T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/16003\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:51:08","slug":"justice-department-joins-colorado-ai-rules-lawsuit-filed-by-musks-xai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/16003\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department joins Colorado AI rules lawsuit filed by Musk&#8217;s xAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit by billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s xAI that challenges Colorado\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/sb24-205\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dormant artificial intelligence regulations<\/a>, just as lawmakers prepare to rewrite those rules.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government announced Friday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1437846\/dl?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it was intervening in the suit<\/a> that xAI filed earlier this month. The company alleges that Colorado\u2019s rules, which seek to prevent discrimination by AI systems that have a consequential say in decisions like bank lending or education enrollment, violate the First Amendment because it requires xAI to \u201cembed the State\u2019s preferred views into the very fabric of AI systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suit also alleges that the rules are too vague and that they seek to regulate products outside of Colorado\u2019s state boundaries. The company owns Grok, an AI chatbot, as well as the social platform X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations were passed nearly two years ago, but they have not yet gone into place. Their effective date has been delayed until June, but they may never kick in. The rules have been roundly criticized by both the tech industry and the groups seeking to regulate AI, and state lawmakers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2026\/03\/18\/artificial-intelligence-task-force-recommendations-colorado\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preparing to take their third stab<\/a> at rewriting them.<\/p>\n<p>Legislation to pursue those reforms is expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Justice Department has joined xAI\u2019s suit, alleging that the pending rules are unconstitutional and that they \u201cattempt to force discriminatory ideology on the AI industry,\u201d despite their intent to stop algorithms from discriminating against students and job applicants.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit asks a federal judge to strike down the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado officials have not yet filed a response to xAI\u2019s initial allegations. Lawrence Pacheco, a spokesman for Attorney General Phil Weiser, declined to comment on the pending litigation Friday morning. He said the office would \u201cdo our talking in our court papers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stay up-to-date with Colorado Politics by signing up for our weekly newsletter, The Spot.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit by billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s xAI that challenges Colorado\u2019s dormant artificial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25,2039,309,2130,2131,11759,5340,1302,11713,76,140,11760,11687,11761,597,2853,6964,7602,66,11762,464,11763,3632,3231,134,4074,2899],"class_list":{"0":"post-16003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xai","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-bank","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-colorado-news","13":"tag-colorado-politics","14":"tag-court","15":"tag-courts","16":"tag-discrimination","17":"tag-education","18":"tag-elon-musk","19":"tag-first-amendment","20":"tag-front-range","21":"tag-gov","22":"tag-government","23":"tag-latest-headlines","24":"tag-lawsuit","25":"tag-lawsuits","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-phil-weiser","28":"tag-politics","29":"tag-regulations","30":"tag-strike","31":"tag-take","32":"tag-technology","33":"tag-u-s-department-of-justice","34":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}