Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (source images via iStock) Colorado and Connecticut this year launched the country’s most ambitious plays to become national models for regulating artificial intelligence. The groundbreaking bills took aim at the companies that develop and use AI systems, and would have prohibited them from causing discrimination in crucial services like health care, employment and housing. But by May, Connecticut’s effort had crumpled after a veto threat from Democrati...