California’s laws aimed at protecting workers from the impacts of artificial intelligence could pave the way for broader workplace safeguards across the US as calls for regulating the technology mount.(加州旨在保护工人免受人工智能冲击的法律，可能为全美更广泛的职场保障措施铺平道路，与此同时，要求监管这项技术的呼声日益高涨。) As the federal government goes hands-off(放手不管) on AI, California is taking the reins(接过缰绳，掌控局面) to address workers’ biggest fears.
加州旨在保护工人免受人工智能冲击的法律，可能为全美更广泛的职场保障措施铺平道路，与此同时，要求监管这项技术的呼声日益高涨。联邦政府在AI问题上放手不管，加州便接过缰绳，直面工人最大的恐惧。
On Thursday, California governor Gavin Newsom signed a suite of new laws that ban bosses from relying entirely on AI to decide whether to fire workers, using it to predict employees’ emotional states or collecting neural data, meaning the information from electrical signals of someone’s brain or nerves.(周四，加州州长加文·纽森签署了一系列新法，禁止老板完全依赖AI决定是否解雇员工、用AI预测员工情绪或收集神经数据（即来自大脑或神经电信号的信息）。) They also require companies to notify workers if layoffs(裁员) were caused by AI and prohibit AI surveillance(监控) in workplace bathrooms.
周四，加州州长加文·纽森签署了一系列新法，禁止老板完全依赖AI决定是否解雇员工、用AI预测员工情绪或收集神经数据（即来自大脑或神经电信号的信息）。新法还要求企业若裁员由AI导致须通知员工，并禁止在工作场所卫生间进行AI监控。
The new laws come as workers increasingly worry whether AI will take their jobs, lead to discrimination(歧视) and increase workplace surveillance. Unions, worker advocates and even some lawmakers pushed for the new rules, a regulatory shift for a technology that has largely developed unchecked.(工会、劳工倡导者甚至一些议员推动了这些新规，这标志着对一项基本不受约束发展的技术进行监管的转变。) California, home to many of the leading companies developing AI, represents one of the first states to roll out(推出，实施) a sweeping(全面的，影响广泛的) set of workplace regulations targeting the technology.
新法出台之际，工人们越来越担心AI会抢走工作、导致歧视并加剧职场监控。工会、劳工倡导者甚至一些议员推动了这些新规，这标志着对一项基本不受约束发展的技术进行监管的转变。加州是许多领先AI公司的所在地，也是首批针对该技术推出全面职场法规的州之一。