The California Senator introduces “No Robo Bosses Act” in the offer to regulate AI at work

Dive short:

• California State Senator Jerry Mcnerney, D-Pheasanton, announced its introduction SB7, otherwise known as “Without Robo bosses do not act”, on March 6 to require human supervision supervision at work.
• Under SB 7Companies could not be based on automatic decision-making systems or advertisements to make employment decisions, including employment, promotion, discipline or termination, without a man supervising the process. The draft law would also prohibit employers from allowing ads to use personal information to predict future workers’ behaviors.
• If it had been signed in the law, the legislation would be the first of its kind in the US, Mcnerney’s office said in a press release.

DIVE INSIGHT:

Mcnerney, who helped establish the federal policy while serving as a US representative, said that the new legislation is not meant to prevent the use of Ads at work, but instead establish technology railings.

“Enterprises are using more and more you have to stimulate efficiency and productivity at work. Currently, there are no guarantees to prevent cars from unfairly or illegally affect workers and working conditions, ”Mcnerney said in a statement. “You have to remain an instrument controlled by people, not the other way around.”

The draft law is a co-author of assemblies Sade Elhawary, D-South Los Angeles and Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, and is sponsored by the Federation of Labor Unions in California, AFL-CIO, which represents more than 1,300 unions with 2.3 million members of the Union.

“No worker should respond to a robot boss when he is afraid to hurt his job or have to go to the bathroom or leave for work for an emergency,” said Lorena Gonzalez, the president of the California Traffic Federation, in a statement. “When it comes to decisions that affect the most jobs, our safety and our families, we need human supervision.”

Fisher Phillips law firm said in a blog post on Monday that the prohibition you have predictive “is likely to be extremely controversial” and that the draft law in general “is expected to generate significant debates between unions and business groups”.

“Such a prohibition could significantly prevent progress and efficiency, as it generally gets to increase the common uses of which are actually intended to help employees, including employees, employee satisfaction and other similar objectives,” the company said. “The opponents will probably argue that such uses are not powered by AI generatively, but instead simple mathematical formulas and are therefore not susceptible to the same concerns (hallucinations, prejudices, etc.) that rise with other uses of GENAI.”

The company said that the states will probably take over the management of the regulation AI “for the foreseeable future”, after a draft law entitled similarly proposed at the federal level, “”Without robot bosses“Act – he never did it outside the commission.

“Finding no traction at the federal level, these types of invoices will undoubtedly proliferate in the States,” said the company.