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Evaluating Trends and Challenges in State Regulation of Workplace Technologies

Author:
Khan, Mishal; Bernhardt, Annette
Publication:
Tech Policy Press
Year:
2025

Until recently, policy discourse in the United States has been contradictory when it comes to regulating digital technologies in the workplace. Concerns about job automation and invasive surveillance dominate the public discussion about AI, and yet policymakers have rarely made worker impacts a central concern, more typically focusing on consumer privacy and the existential risks posed by frontier models. But this has started to change over the past several years — and especially this year — with the introduction of a slew of bills that address a range of harms to workers from data-driven workplace technologies...