When Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 7, the “No Robo Bosses Act,” which would have required human review before an algorithm could fire or discipline a California worker, the governor’s message last year was unmistakable: protecting livelihoods from automated decisions would impose too great a “burden” on innovation.

This was not a minor policy disagreement. It was a signal that Sacramento is willing to let algorithmic systems — many built and controlled by out-of-state tech giants — make life-altering decisions about Californians without meaningful guardrails.

Over the past two years, California lawmakers have processed more than 30 AI-related bills, earning headlines about the state’s leadership on safety, transparency and consumer protection. Yet the laws that survived lobbyist pressure and gubernatorial vetoes share a common flaw: they rely almost entirely on delayed paperwork — training data summaries, incident reports and audits that arrive long after the damage is done.

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