California has banned businesses from using AI to monitor employees' emotional states or collect neural data.

California has banned businesses from inferring employee's emotional states through use of AI-powered surveillance tools or from collecting data on their workers’ brain activity. Measure AB 1883, signed into law on Wednesday, restricts employers’ use of systems such as video and audio monitoring, continuous time-trackers, geolocation, and electromagnetic tracking if they use artificial intelligence to collect neural data or recognize employees’ emotions. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/newsom-signs-ban-on-using-ai-to-monitor-worker-brain-activity

California has banned businesses from inferring their employees' emotional states through use of AI-powered surveillance tools or from collecting data on their workers’ brain activity. Measure AB 1883, signed into law on Wednesday, restricts employers’ use of systems such as video and audio monitoring, continuous time-trackers, geolocation, and electromagnetic tracking if they use artificial intelligence to collect neural data or recognize employees’ emotions.