2026年4月24日 美国东部时间下午2:48 / 福克斯新闻
这起诉讼缘起于科罗拉多州在言论与宗教自由相关文化战案件中接连在最高法院败诉
阿什利·奥利弗 福克斯新闻报道
美国司法部于周五与埃隆·马斯克联手，支持其旗下xAI公司针对科罗拉多州提起的诉讼。该诉讼指控科罗拉多州一项监管人工智能开发者的州法律实为变相手段，迫使企业在其平台上采纳多元化、公平性与包容性（DEI）政策。
司法部民权司司长哈米特·迪隆表示，司法部此次介入是该部门首次在人工智能案件中发起宪法挑战。
科罗拉多州遭到司法部与xAI的指控，称其将于6月生效的州法律违反第一和第十四修正案，迫使人工智能开发者无意中实施歧视。科罗拉多州对此并不陌生，近年来该州在其他多起备受关注的文化战案件中接连遭遇法律败诉。
“我们支持xAI这起具有里程碑意义的诉讼，反对科罗拉多州强行推行觉醒式DEI标准，”迪隆说道。
科罗拉多州最新最高法院败诉，文化战失利记录再添一笔
2025年5月30日，埃隆·马斯克在华盛顿白宫椭圆形办公室从唐纳德·特朗普总统手中接过金钥匙。（内森·霍华德/路透社）
这起诉讼源于科罗拉多州议会2024年通过的一项颇具争议的消费者保护法案，该法案要求像xAI这样的“高风险”开发者——其旗下拥有热门平台Grok——必须采取“合理措施”保护消费者免受“算法歧视”，规定人工智能工具不得基于该州受保护的群体类别产生歧视，比如种族与宗教。马斯克于2023年创立xAI。
科罗拉多州的这项法律还将目标对准了部署人工智能平台的实体，比如医院或银行，称该法案旨在确保相关领域的消费者得到公平对待。
民主党籍州长贾里德·波利斯2024年不情愿地签署该法案成为法律，但同时也担忧该法案施加的一系列繁重监管规定会疏远本州的科技创新者。福克斯新闻数字频道已联系波利斯办公室，就司法部介入诉讼一事征求评论。
司法部律师在诉讼中辩称，科罗拉多州的法案实际上“助长了进一步的歧视”，并援引法案中的条款指出，该法案允许人工智能开发者在其工具中偏袒特定群体“以增加多样性或纠正历史歧视”。
左翼女演员娜塔莎·莱昂内牵头游说特朗普政府推动人工智能监管
2024年10月1日，科罗拉多州州长贾里德·波利斯在纽约哥伦比亚广播公司广播中心举行的第一场副总统辩论后的 Spin 室接受媒体采访。（阿尔·德拉/彭博社）
司法部律师在诉状中写道，该法律“要求人工智能系统纳入歧视性意识形态，优先考虑特定人口特征和结果，而非基于准确且择优的产出，这会危及美国作为全球人工智能领导者的地位”。
司法部的诉讼聚焦于其所指控的平等保护权 violations，而马斯克的xAI则在诉讼中提出了多项违法行为指控，包括违反宪法的观点歧视。xAI的律师在本月早些时候提交的起诉书中辩称，该法案将迫使人工智能开发者输出“进步意识形态”。
“通过要求‘开发者’和‘部署者’区分科罗拉多州不认可的歧视和科罗拉多州认可的歧视，SB24-205法案迫使原告xAI——该法案定义下的‘开发者’——改造Grok，迫使Grok在某些由州政府选定的主题上的输出符合一种极具争议的、高度政治化的观点，”xAI的律师在起诉书中写道。
2025年10月2日，希腊雅典，智能手机屏幕上显示的Grok应用程序。（尼古拉斯·科科夫利斯/ NurPhoto）
某律师事务所表示，科罗拉多州将成为人工智能消费者保护的“全国试金石案例”，称其是首个通过此类法律的州，暗示该州将再次成为检验其能在多大程度上突破宪法界限的案例研究。
本月早些时候，最高法院以8比1的投票结果裁定，波利斯2019年签署生效的科罗拉多州转化治疗禁令违反第一修正案，因为该禁令仅限制特定类型的言论，即当治疗旨在阻止未成年人认同跨性别或同性恋身份时的谈话疗法。
此前，最高法院在303 Creative案中作出了一项广泛的言论自由裁决，涉及一名网站设计师基于宗教信仰拒绝为同性夫妇创建婚礼页面的权利，以及2018年“杰作蛋糕店诉科罗拉多州民权委员会”一案的 narrower 裁决。
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libertarian 智库卡托研究所援引最近三起具有里程碑意义的最高法院案件，指出科罗拉多州正出现一种趋势。
“这项法律不可避免地会导致开发者以合规为名限制人工智能中的合法言论，尤其是考虑到科罗拉多州对‘有害歧视’的定义，”卡托研究所研究员戴维·因塞拉写道。
“而且科罗拉多州显然对哪些类型的言论属于有害和歧视性有明确立场，从其在最高法院的多次败诉中可见一斑。”
福克斯新闻数字频道已于周五联系了xAI的一名律师。
阿什利·奥利弗是福克斯新闻数字频道和福克斯商业频道的记者，负责报道司法部与法律事务。可通过邮箱ashley.oliver@fox.com发送新闻线索。
Trump DOJ jumps into Musk xAI court battle as diversity fight heats up
April 24, 2026 2:48pm EDT / Fox News
The lawsuit follows Colorado’s string of Supreme Court defeats in culture war cases over speech and religious freedoms
By Ashley Oliver Fox News
The Department of Justice joined forces with Elon Musk on Friday by backing a lawsuit his xAI company brought against Colorado alleging a state law regulating artificial intelligence developers was a masked effort to force them to adopt diversity, equity and inclusion on their platforms.
DOJ Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon said DOJ’s intervention was the department’s first constitutional challenge in an AI case.
Colorado faces allegations from the DOJ and xAI that its state law, set to take effect in June, violates the First and 14th amendments by forcing AI developers to inadvertently discriminate, an allegation familiar to Colorado, which has faced a string of legal losses in other high-profile culture war cases in recent years.
“We join @xai’s landmark suit, and stand against woke DEI standards being imposed by Colorado,” Dhillon said.
COLORADO’S LATEST SUPREME COURT LOSS ADDS TO GROWING STRING OF CULTURE WAR DEFEATS
Elon Musk receives a golden key from President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 2025.(Nathan Howard/Reuters)
The lawsuit arose from a controversial consumer protection bill the Colorado legislature passed in 2024 that required “high-risk” developers like xAI, which built the popular platform Grok, to exercise “reasonable care” to protect consumers from “algorithmic discrimination,” saying AI tools must not result in discrimination based on protected classes in the state, such as race and religion. Musk founded xAI in 2023.
The Colorado law also targeted entities that deploy the AI platforms, like hospitals or banks, saying the law was intended to make sure consumers in those areas were treated fairly.
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis reluctantly signed the bill into law in 2024 but has raised concerns over whether it would alienate tech innovators in his state because of the slate of burdensome regulations it imposed on them. Fox News Digital reached out to Polis’ office for comment on DOJ’s intervention in the lawsuit.
The DOJ lawyers argued in their lawsuit that Colorado’s bill actually “fosters further discrimination,” citing language in the bill that allowed AI developers to favor certain classes of people in their AI tools “to increase diversity or redress historical discrimination.”
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks to members of the media in the spin room after the first vice presidential debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York on Oct. 1, 2024.(Al Drago/Bloomberg)
The law “jeopardizes the United States’ position as the global AI leader by requiring AI systems to incorporate discriminatory ideology that prioritizes preferred demographic characteristics and outcomes over accurate and merit-based outputs,” government lawyers wrote.
The DOJ’s lawsuit focused on what it alleged were equal protection violations, while Musk’s xAI lawsuit alleged numerous violations, including unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. Lawyers for xAI contended in their complaint, brought earlier this month, that the law would force AI developers to output “progressive ideology.”
“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,” xAI lawyers wrote.
The Grok application appears on a smartphone screen in Athens, Greece, on Oct. 2, 2025.(Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto)
One law firm said Colorado would become a “national test case” for AI consumer protection, saying it was the first state to pass such a law, suggesting the state would once again become a case study on how far it could push constitutional bounds.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, signed into law by Polis in 2019, violated the First Amendment because it only restricted certain types of speech, in this case talk therapy when the therapy aimed to prevent minors from embracing being transgender or gay.
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That ruling followed a broad free speech decision in 303 Creative related to a website designer’s right to deny creating a wedding page for a gay couple based on religious beliefs and a narrower 2018 decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
The libertarian CATO Institute observed a trend in Colorado, citing the trio of recent landmark Supreme Court cases.
“This law will inevitably result in developers restricting lawful speech from their AIs in the name of compliance, especially given Colorado’s view of what constitutes harmful discrimination,” CATO fellow David Inserra wrote.
“And Colorado clearly has strong views on what kinds of speech are harmful and discriminatory, as seen in its multiple losses at the Supreme Court.”
Fox News Digital reached out to an xAI attorney on Friday.
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
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