California's new laws target workers' biggest fear of AI taking their jobs

Gavin Newsom speaks at Google's San Francisco office about'creating an AI-read workforce', a joint effort with some of the world's leading tech companies to help better prepare California's students and workers for the next generation of technology. Gavin Newsom speaks at Google's San Francisco office about'creating an AI-read workforce', a joint effort with some of the world's leading tech companies to help better prepare California's students and workers for the next generation of technology. California's new laws target workers' biggest fear of AI taking their jobs California's laws aimed at protecting workers from the impacts of artificial intelligence could pave the way for broader workplace safeguards across the US as calls for regulating the technology mount. As the federal government goes hands-off on AI, California is taking the reins to address workers' biggest fears. On Thursday, California governor Gavin Newsom signed a suite of new laws that ban bosses from relying entirely on AI to decide whether to fire workers, using it to predict employees' emotional states or collecting neural data, meaning the information from electrical signals of someone's brain or nerves.