How Two Colorado House Candidates Are Thinking About AI - The New York Times

The New York Times reported on October 20, 2026, on how two House candidates in Colorado are thinking about artificial intelligence as a campaign issue. The two are running a close race, and both have been active in early efforts to regulate the technology, according to the report. The article is headlined 'How Two Colorado House Candidates Are Thinking About AI.'

The Times describes AI as 'the Wild West of politics this election cycle,' writing that the technology has attracted big campaign checks from competing corporate interests and has scrambled traditional political lines. The report places the Colorado race inside that national dynamic rather than treating it as a local curiosity: both candidates, it says, have been active in early regulatory efforts at a moment when AI policy is still being written. The excerpt does not name the candidates, their parties, or the district they are contesting.

The context the article supplies is an election cycle in which AI has become a political subject in its own right: the report describes the issue attracting campaign checks from competing corporate interests while scrambling traditional political lines. Candidates with early regulatory involvement, it notes, are now campaigning inside that scramble. The excerpt does not detail either candidate's specific policy positions, voting record, or proposals, and does not state how much money has been raised or spent in the race.