{"id":211323,"date":"2026-05-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/theres-a-long-shot-proposal-to-protect-california-workers-from-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:00:24","slug":"theres-a-long-shot-proposal-to-protect-california-workers-from-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/theres-a-long-shot-proposal-to-protect-california-workers-from-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tom-steyer-proposes-jobs-guarantee-to-protect-california-workers-from-ai\/\">There\u2019s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tom-steyer-proposes-jobs-guarantee-to-protect-california-workers-from-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tom-steyer-proposes-jobs-guarantee-to-protect-california-workers-from-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Billionaire California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer proposes to guarantee jobs with benefits for workers displaced by artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>This plan builds on a broader AI policy framework released in March and aims to make California the first major economy to ensure &#8220;good-paying&#8221; jobs for those affected by AI.<\/li>\n<li>Steyer would fund this initiative by introducing a &#8220;token tax&#8221; on big tech companies for every unit of data processed by AI, which would then go to the Golden State Sovereign Wealth Fund.<\/li>\n<li>The fund would be used for building housing, improving health care, and modernizing California\u2019s energy infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Steyer\u2019s initiative also includes expanding unemployment insurance and establishing a new agency called the AI Worker Protection Administration to safeguard workers&#8217; rights.<\/li>\n<li>Steyer&#8217;s proposal comes amidst broader efforts at state and federal levels to address the impact of AI on the workforce, including similar concepts suggested by AI executives and lawmakers.<\/li>\n<li>Steyer emphasizes the need for a proactive approach to ensure California workers do not get left behind in the AI transition.<\/li>\n<li>His plan differentiates from his Democratic primary opponent, Xavier Becerra, who has proposed workforce investment and transition support without a specific funding mechanism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tom-steyer-proposes-jobs-guarantee-to-protect-california-workers-from-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-08 11:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/69fa6c65cfdc5f2b42e5b5ba\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/pol_Tom_CA_GettyImages-2273635848.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211325,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211323\/revisions\/211325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}