Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block Colorado from enforcing a new law regulating high-risk AI systems.
According to the complaint, the company argues the measure would force developers to modify how AI systems operate and could restrict how models generate responses.
“SB24-205 is decidedly not an anti-discrimination law. It is instead an effort to embed the State’s preferred views into the very fabric of AI systems,” attorneys for xAI wrote. “Its provisions prohibit developers of AI systems from producing speech that the State of Colorado dislikes, while compelling them to conform their speech to a State-enforced orthodoxy on controversial topics of great public concern.”
"By requiring “developers” and “deployers” to differentiate between discrimination that Colorado disfavors and discrimination that Colorado favors, SB24-205 compels Plaintiff xAI—a “developer” under the law—to alter Grok, forcing Grok’s output on certain State-selected subjects to conform to a controversial, highly politicized viewpoint,” the lawsuit said. “But the State “may not compel [xAI] to speak its own preferred messages.”
The lawsuit also arrives as scrutiny of xAI’s chatbot Grok continues to increase.
xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Decrypt.
