Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect California workers from AI threat
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California is turning AI labor risk into compliance risk—new laws around job loss and workplace surveillance will add friction to how you deploy monitoring, scheduling, and automation tools in the state. Multistate employers should assume California becomes the high-water mark for AI labor rules and design policies and audits to that bar now.
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