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California built a tool to catch AI killing jobs

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California has built the first state tool to watch for AI wiping out jobs. The early read: no mass layoffs yet, but warning signs are flashing in the Bay Area and among college-educated workers.

Everyone argues about whether AI is killing jobs. Almost nobody has hard data. California has now built a tool to find some. The state has launched what it calls a first-in-the-nation system to track AI-related job loss as it happens.

The dashboard is called the California AI-Unemployment Tracker, or CAIT. Governor Gavin Newsom announced it on Thursday and called it an early warning system. His office built it with the California Policy Lab, a nonpartisan research centre at the University of California, and the state Employment Development Department.

The method is the clever part. It takes California’s monthly unemployment-insurance claims and tags each one by how exposed the worker’s old job was to AI. Track that...

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