Automated Decision-Making Notice Cheat Sheet — ai governance duties in Colorado, California and Connecticut
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Direct answer: Automated decision-making notices are the disclosures owed to people when AI systems make or shape consequential decisions about them — hiring, housing, credit, services. This cheat sheet is for teams deploying such systems under Colorado, California and Connecticut duties. The ADMT Notice Kit assembles the pieces for you (Free, Pro $49/mo, Team $99/mo), and its free tier starts with the notice templates and deadline tracker.
Key facts
3 states anchor the kit: Colorado, California and Connecticut automated decision-making duties, each with its own notice shape.
Notice comes before use: a pre-use notice explains the system before it decides; an explanation after an adverse outcome is a separate, second duty.
Human review must be real: a queue where a person can actually change the outcome — a rubber stamp is a finding, not a safeguard.
What notices does automated decision-making require under ai governance duties?
The notice duties come in layers. Before use, people are told a system will be involved in decisions about them and what it does. When a decision goes against someone, they are owed a plain-language explanation of the main reasons and a route to human review. And behind both sits a records duty: being able to show what was decided, when, and under which version of the system.
Pre-use notice: that an automated system will be used, what it evaluates, and the categories of data it considers — published before the system touches the person's case.
Adverse-outcome explanation: after a negative decision, the principal reasons in plain language — not 'the model decided', but the factors a person can understand and contest.
Human review route: how to request a person, what that person can change, and the timeline for an answer.
Deadline tracking: state duties carry effective dates and response windows; the calendar is part of compliance.
Record log: notices given, explanations issued and reviews completed — hash-chained so the history cannot be quietly tidied.
How do the three states differ?
Colorado: its AI Act framework centres on high-risk systems and deployer duties — notices, explanations and appeal routes for consequential decisions.
California: automated decision-making technology rules under its privacy framework emphasise pre-use notice and opt-out and access rights for significant decisions.
Connecticut: its privacy law gives people rights around profiling and solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects, including human review.
The operating pattern is shared: notify before, explain after, offer a human, keep the record — build the pattern once, then tune the wording per state with qualified counsel.
It is the disclosure a business owes people when automated systems make or materially shape consequential decisions about them. The kit version has three parts: a pre-use notice before the system is applied, a plain-language explanation after any adverse outcome, and a working route to human review — plus the records proving each happened.
Which states require automated decision-making notices?
The ADMT kit is built around Colorado, California and Connecticut, whose AI and privacy frameworks impose notice, explanation and human-review duties for consequential automated decisions. Other jurisdictions are moving the same direction, which is why the kit is a pattern — notify, explain, review, record — with state-specific wording on top.
What counts as a consequential decision?
Decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on a person: employment, housing, credit and lending, insurance, education and access to essential services are the standard categories. If the system's output can deny someone one of those, treat it as consequential and run the full notice pattern.
What does ADMT cost?
The ADMT Notice Kit starts free with notice templates and the deadline tracker. Pro is $49 per month for the full queue, explanation and record tooling, and Team is $99 per month. The free tier produces a real pre-use notice, so the first duty is dischargable before any payment.