"The briefing paper pointedly cites Newsom's veto of last year's Senate Bill 7, a union-backed bill to bar employers from using AI to make employee discipline and termination decisions. In rejecting it, Newsom said the measure was overly broad and would prevent even innocuous uses of AI. Newsom's veto exemplifies his efforts, as the AI industry explodes, to satisfy both the tech industry, with which he has decades-long political ties, and those who worry about AI's societal and economic impacts."
"The proliferation of artificial intelligence in recent years has been nothing short of explosive, a background paper for the event declares. Employers have latched on to AI for everything: from using it to monitor and surveil workers to setting workers' wages to outright replacement of workers. Artificial intelligence is a multi-billion-dollar industry that continues to proceed unchecked, without common sense guardrails in place, leaving workers' livelihoods ruined and even lost in its wake."
National and state labor leaders gathered in Sacramento to warn that union backing for Gavin Newsom's potential 2028 presidential campaign depends on protecting jobs from artificial intelligence. The California Federation of Labor calls AI the biggest existential threat to working Americans and demands leaders work with organized labor to create guardrails. A background paper says employers use AI to monitor workers, set wages, and replace employees. The paper cites Newsom's veto of Senate Bill 7, which would have barred AI-based discipline and termination, noting his rationale that the bill was overly broad. Newsom seeks to balance ties to tech with worries about AI's impacts.
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