The No. 2 Democrat in the Colorado Senate on Saturday shuffled the members of a key committee in order to advance his measure tweaking Colorado’s first-in-the-nation law regulating artificial intelligence, which is set to take effect in February.

The decision should end a three-day standoff among the Capitol’s Democratic majority about how to move forward on the AI policy, with tech groups and schools on one side of the coin and consumer protection groups and unions on the other.

The changes to the Senate Appropriations Committee, an extraordinary move made by Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, D-Denver, give Democrats a 5-2 advantage on the panel, whereas before they had a 4-3 majority. State Sen. Jeff Bridges, a Greenwood Village Democrat and chair of the legislature’s Joint Bud

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