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Jared Polis

government officialCredibility: 60%

Why this score? Governor of Colorado; signed SB24-205. Factual on his own signing statement; a motivated political actor on policy characterizations.

Tracked Statements (1)

Governor Polis signed the Colorado AI Act with reservations, warning it creates a complex compliance regime that could hamper innovation, urging sponsors to significantly improve it before it takes effect, and calling on Congress to enact preemptive federal AI legislation.?

Context: A signing-statement opinion and a call for federal action, not a determinate factual claim, so it is not scored. Two of its elements can now be checked in hindsight, and both cut in Polis's favour without vindicating the remedy he asked for. The law was never significantly improved before taking effect, because it never took effect: its start date slipped from 1 February to 30 June 2026, xAI sued the Colorado Attorney General to enjoin it, and on 27 April 2026 the court suspended enforcement pending the legislature's next move and a preliminary-injunction ruling. And Congress did not supply the preemptive federal statute he called for — the preemption came instead from the executive branch, through a Justice Department intervention against Colorado's law under Executive Order 14365.