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    California's 'No Robo Bosses Act' advances, taking aim at AI in the workplace
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    California’s ‘No Robo Bosses Act’ advances, taking aim at AI in the workplace

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    1. katxwoods on

      Submission statement: One company offers Bay Area employers artificial intelligence that filters potential hires by combing through 10,000 public online sources looking for references to violence or illegal drugs. Another uses the technology to scan workers’ office emails for signs of dissatisfaction or burnout. Others offer AI analysis of workers’ every online action in the workplace.

      As artificial intelligence gives new, powerful tools to employers seeking to streamline hiring and monitor workers, a bill is advancing through the California Legislature to address fears that the technology could unfairly deny workers jobs and promotions or lead to punishment and firings.

      The “No Robo Bosses Act”—Senate Bill 7—seeks to impose [human decision-making](https://techxplore.com/tags/human+decision-making/) over certain workplace-automation technology. Introduced by state Sen. Jerry McNerney, a Pleasanton Democrat, it passed the state Senate in a 27-10 vote earlier this month.

    2. Deweydc18 on

      Kind of ironic that the only legislation being proposed is one that protects the managerial class from automation and not the rest of the workforce

    4. nolasen on

      How does this mix with the federal gov trying to pass bills banning states from passing any laws regarding AI for a decade?

    5. adaminc on

      I don’t know if the quote is real or not, but there was a quote from IBM, from a training manual of some sort, I think from the 70s.

      It was something along the lines of (paraphrasing) “Computers can’t be accountable for their decisions, so they should not be allowed to make managerial decisions.”, and I think that is a good idea to run with.

    6. noonemustknowmysecre on

      Blatant move to stop AI from taking MY job, coming from managers.   Why should they be exempt? 

    7. JayList on

      Duck the decision makers. They should look their jobs first. The LLM can fake their job but not mine.