Plain English Breakdown
Checked against official source text during the last sync.
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.