aceCalifornia’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 o…
California laws signed by the governor ban relying entirely on AI for firing decisions, predicting emotions, collecting neural data, and AI surveillance in bathrooms, and require disclosure of AI-caused layoffs.
The laws have no private enforcement, so workers cannot sue, and it is too soon to judge how effective they will be or how broadly they will change practice.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-03
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