California launches AI-Unemployment Tracker to monitor job losses linked to automation
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Bloomberg
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California has launched the AI-Unemployment Tracker, an "early warning system" designed to monitor real-time labor market disruptions potentially caused by AI. The tool, developed by Governor Gavin Newsom's office, the state's Employment Development Department, and the California Policy Lab, links measures of AI exposure across occupations with monthly unemployment insurance claims data to detect signs of AI-driven job loss.
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California launched a tool on Thursday designed to serve as an 'early warning system' for widespread AI-driven job loss.
The tracker was built as a partnership between the office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, the state's Employment Development Department and the California Policy Lab, a research institute at the University of California.
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