California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs laws aimed at protecting workers from AI

ABC reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws aimed at protecting workers from AI-related job losses and workplace surveillance. Another post says AB 1883 bans tools that recognize or predict employees’ emotions or collect neural data. It says employers cannot rely only on AI for discipline or firing and must disclose mass layoffs, relocations or terminations caused by an AI system. The post also describes measures involving doctors’ judgment, AI watermarks, deepfakes and gene synthesis screening.