New York Becomes First State to Require Employers Disclose When Layoffs Are Due to AI

If you lose your job as part of mass layoffs at your company because your boss believes an artificial intelligence model can do your work instead, they will have to start filing more paperwork disclosing the decision. That is according to a new law in New York state that requires employers to disclose if mass layoffs - which is defined as 50 or more workers - were due to AI. The change to New York's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system went into effect in March, but has received little coverage since then; Bloomberg was the first major outlet to report on the . . .