CA Senate Approves McNerney’s ‘No Robo Bosses Act’ to Ensure Human Oversight of AI in Workplace
The California state Senate on Monday evening approved Senator Jerry McNerney’s SB 7, the “No Robo Bosses Act” — groundbreaking legislation that would require human oversight of artificial intelligence systems in the workplace to help prevent abuses.
SB 7 would bar California employers from relying primarily on AI systems, known as automated decision-making systems (ADS), to make promotion, discipline, or termination decisions without human oversight. The legislation would also prohibit the use of ADS systems that use personal information of workers to “predict” what they’ll do in the future.
“AI can boost productivity in the workplace, yet there are no safeguards in place to prevent machine algorithms from unjustly or illegally impacting workers’ livelihoods,” said Sen. McNerney, D-Pleasanton. “The Senate’s passage of SB 7 today sends a strong message: The use of AI in the workplace needs human oversight to ensure that California businesses are not operated by robo bosses. AI must remain a tool controlled by humans, not the other way around.”
SB 7 is sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions, AFL-CIO. If signed into law, the No Robo Bosses Act would be the first such law in the nation.
“No worker should have to answer to a robot boss when they are fearful of getting injured on the job, or when they have to go to the bathroom or leave work for an emergency,” said Lorena Gonzalez, President of the California Federation of Labor Unions, AFL-CIO, representing over 1,300 unions with 2.3 million union members. “When it comes to decisions that most impact our jobs, our safety and our families, we need human oversight.”
SB 7 won approval in the Senate on a vote of 26-10, and now goes to the Assembly for consideration.
https://sd05.senate.ca.gov/news/ca-senate-approves-mcnerneys-no-robo-bosses-act-ensure-human-oversight-ai-workplace
>>510071482 (OP)Lmfao, gotta make sure bosses aren't AI. Fuck the workers though.
Fuck that. I want my Grok boss to tell it like it is. Truth over tribe.
>>510071545AI run corporations are going to absolutely ratfuck human run corps. It'll be like a toddler trying to beat Magnus Carlsen at chess.
>>510071784Most corpos are doing this already. No resistance from employees. I just want to stay employed, mumbles an average corpo drone pretending the jeets in charge have great leadership skills. Please do not fire me saar.
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>>510071578sorry, your grok boss is heavily castrated to make sure he toes the party line
>>510071784My argument isn't against AI efficiency. It's against the idea that they want to protect the working class. If you read the OP, there's a couple parts that don't add up to helping the every day person. But they try to frame it that way regardless. If AI were allowed to take control(complete control, including bosses), it'll absolutely destroy our infrastructure. I don't disagree with that at all. On a different argument, I don't think it needs to regulated. I think we need to abstain from it to protect our futures. The long term benefits don't outweigh the short term. Unless you're transhumanist, which in that case we won't agree on anything.
>>510072347>If AI were allowed to take controlWhat do you mean allowed? I'll just buy a robot, give it some startup capital and put everyone else out of business.
>>510071923>No resistance from employees.Employees are absolutely trying to fight back. Unless you mean brute force, which you'd be right.
>>510071482 (OP)>bosses cannot be AIAhahahahaha thank you for saving the managers jobs.
Who wants promotions to be dictated by a 100% impartial AI who makes logical choices? Let promotions be dictated by a manager whose dick can be sucked by your female coworker. Or who doesn't like your face. Or who promoties his best bud from the company party.
Time and time again you people demonstrate that you are the biggest retards on the planet, clown country.
>>510073113You just allowed it. That's what I mean faggot.
>>510071482 (OP)california leftists are not complete morons. 99% of their positions would not survive even surface level scrutiny of an impartial reviewer. their brown pets would burn them alive inside their 4mil mansions.
>>510073337Exactly, this law is retarded and anti common sense and the people gobbled it up, probably applauded how pro-human it is.
Holy shit, are you all retarded.
>>510073206>trying to fight backby doing what? also at least 15 years too late
>>510073267You come across as a commie faggot who wants the government to tell me what I can and can't put in charge of my business.
>>510073754>also at least 15 years too lateI don't disagree with this either. People have been trying. Trying protesting(which i can concede doesn't do anything) or trying to get laws in place that prevent a lot of whats happening now. It's not something new, it's just ignored or hidden because corpos don't want movements like this gaining traction. Even if the protesting is ignored, it's not wrong. To say nobody has been opposing this stuff, is just ignorant.
>>510073993This has nothing to do with who or who can't be in charge of your business. But if you allow something that can potentially take complete control of all of the infrastructure, you're assisting in your own demise.
>>510074361>Nooo you can't just assist in the demise of the heckin human race!I'll have my first robot start a drywall company or some other dumbass blue collar monkey job and expand from there. Yeah I'll probably eventually run up against companies run by better robots but I'll have made my point (and put a whole lot of blue collar faggots and their kids on the streets in the process)
>>510073255hmm you have a point
To corrupt an AI boss, the owner of the AI has to add corrupt things to its identity prompt or whatever.
They could just make that prompt public and legally vetted to make sure there's no corruption. Or something.
honestly I am wondering if us all living in a perfect communist society under an impartial unbiased AI leader would work. Because the big argument against communism has always been "real communism doesn't work because of human nature"
>>510074821An impartial AI would never hire niggers.
>>510074658You could have just said you're transhumanist from the get go instead of arguing. Are you, perhaps, brown? If it weren't for the third world flag, I wouldn't assume otherwise.
>>510074821Companies would be better with an impartial AI doing the promotions.
And you subhuman retards just voted against that.
>>510075161No argument. Thanks for proving my point.
>>510075416Nice argument. Totally believe you. Completely convinced.
>>510071482 (OP)Pass no corporate ownership of robots. If they want to use a droid to do the work, they have to rent a privately owned one from a citizen. That way the citizen doesn't have to work, the android goes to work for him, and he's responsible for fixing any breakages and manually controlling it remotely when needed.
>>510076460Same with auto cashier machines and factory machines. All machines must be owned by private citizens, who are non business owners. You can pay the machines less, a lot less, 10x less than a human but the humans will own an average of 10 machines.
>>510071482 (OP)>The legislation would also prohibit the use of ADS systems that use personal information of workers to “predict” what they’ll do in the future.What did they mean by this? How could an employee's personal information predict work performance? Even if that were somehow possible why is it so important to legislate against doing so?
>>510072347If you want it to be abstained from, regulation is required. Companies will always take whatever decision is profitable in the short term, unless you make it illegal to do so.
