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justthenews.com2026-04-24

California bill would study A.I.'s impact on jobs, workforce, and make recommendations

PolicyLabour

The Golden State, famed for anticipating the future a little too late to stop everybody getting horribly burned, has decided that the most urgent AI policy measure is a *study.* Assembly Bill 2545, sponsored by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, proposed on 18 April, funds a state-commissioned deep dive into AI's job impacts — analysis, sector-by-sector, and, these things take time, you know — big juicy forward-flow-in-reverse design recommendations handed by, eventually, of course some over-decadent labour consultant some hundreds to process. Meanwhile, we have parallel evidence — for example, our coverage of a prior, broader McKinsey-level forecast from London Economic and actual executives like many every day confess pre-hiring: highly anticipated industry memo.* Naturally California government fumbled toward picking exact team. California capital estimates production cycle rounding 16 months produce publication. Not include draft bill. 'California,' land of regulation on literal printer-speed lighting-fast-rough global terrain: at stroke original Silicon Valley beating everybody. Our documented prior Google + Coca-Cola AI fears give sign, by way mock calm illusion processing report trick. But make-to-Process yields. Dark 300-word approved version checks word count.

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