作为许多人工智能公司的所在地，加州是率先推出针对这项技术的职场法规的州之一。
这些法律旨在保护工人免受人工智能的影响，可能会为美国其他地区更广泛的职场保护措施铺平道路，因为对规范人工智能的呼声日益高涨。
The state, which is home to many AI companies, is one of the first to roll out workplace regulations targeting the technology 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.
在联邦政府对此采取观望态度的情况下，加州正在主动采取措施来解决工人最关心的问题。
As the federal government goes hands-off on AI, California is taking the reins to address workers’ biggest fears.
周四，加州州长加文·纽森签署了一系列新法律，禁止雇主完全依赖人工智能来决定是否解雇员工、利用人工智能预测员工情绪状态或收集神经数据（即来自人脑或神经的电信号信息）。
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.
这些法律还要求企业在裁员时通知员工，并禁止在工作场所的卫生间使用人工智能监控系统。
They also require companies to notify workers if layoffs were caused by AI and prohibit AI surveillance in workplace bathrooms.