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AB-2545 • 2026

Report: labor force impact: artificial intelligence.

Report: labor force impact: artificial intelligence.

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Schiavo
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Senate - Appropriations
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Report on How Artificial Intelligence Affects Workers

This law creates a project and an advisory panel within the Employment Development Department to study how advanced artificial intelligence affects workers in California.

What This Bill Does

  • Creates the California Artificial Intelligence Worker Impact Data Assessment Project inside the Employment Development Department (EDD).
  • Forms an Advisory Panel with 14 members appointed as prescribed by law.
  • Requires the EDD and the panel to study data sources about how advanced artificial intelligence affects workers.
  • Orders the panel to send a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2028.
  • Asks for policy ideas on how to help workers affected by artificial intelligence in that report.
  • Requires the panel to post the final report online and then end its work.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Employment Development Department (EDD).
  • Members of the new Advisory Panel.
  • Workers whose jobs may change because of artificial intelligence.
  • The California Legislature, which will receive the report and recommendations.

Terms To Know

Employment Development Department (EDD)
A state agency that handles job creation activities and employment services in California.
Advisory Panel
A group of 14 people chosen to give advice on how artificial intelligence impacts workers.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The law does not list the specific rules for appointing panel members, only that they are appointed as prescribed.
  • This project and its laws end on January 1, 2029.

Bill History

  1. California Legislative Information

    Senate - Appropriations

Official Summary Text

Report: labor force impact: artificial intelligence.