Newsom signs California laws to protect workers from AI

Gavin Newsom signed laws barring employers from using AI to predict workers' emotional states via biometric data or to decide on firings, and requiring written notice for AI-driven mass layoffs. An executive order also requires state agencies to keep using the term "artificial intelligence" instead of "super intelligence."

• Ban on predicting workers' emotions from biometric data
• Written notice required for AI-driven mass layoffs
• Employers barred from using AI to decide firings
• Order keeps state term "AI" instead of "super intelligence"