DOJ Joins Musk’s xAI Suit Against Colorado AI Discrimination Law

The Capital Building in Denver, Colorado.

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The Trump administration is joining Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI in its legal challenge to Colorado’s new state law that seeks to prevent discrimination by autonomous tools in employment and other areas.

The case filed this month in Denver federal court marks an emerging battleground between AI developers’ free speech rights and “algorithmic discrimination.”