US Politics
A Study in Cowardice: Newsom's AI Executive Order and the Betrayal of the California Worker
Amid a wave of tech layoffs linked to AI, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order calling for state agencies to study potential mitigations like severance policies and subsidized employment. This timid response, a hollow study while workers face immediate displacement, is a pathetic abdication of leadership that treats human livelihoods as mere data points to be analyzed rather than rights to be fiercely defended.
