Gavin Newsom Signs Bill Banning ‘Robo Bosses’ as Part of California Crackdown on AI

Photo: Governor Gavin Newsom speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. Attribution: “Gavin Newsom” by Gage Skidmore via Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0. Article by Bruce Gil. Gizmodo – October 1, 2026.

A day after President Donald Trump had lunch with some of the nation’s top AI executives, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills Wednesday aimed at putting new guardrails on the technology. Chief among them was the “No Robo Bosses Act of 2026,” a first-in-the-nation law that bars employers from relying solely on AI-powered automated decision systems to fire or discipline workers. If an employer mainly relies on one of these systems to make a decision, the law requires a human reviewer to corroborate it using other information like manager evaluations or peer reviews. […]

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