{"id":318,"date":"2025-10-16T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/?p=318"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:02:42","slug":"californias-no-robo-bosses-act-wont-get-governors-sign-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/2025\/10\/16\/californias-no-robo-bosses-act-wont-get-governors-sign-on\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s &#8220;No Robo Bosses&#8221; Act Won&#8217;t Get Governor&#8217;s Sign On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/CA.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/CA-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2492\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Alex. W. Karasik, Brian L. Johnsrud, and George J. Schaller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Duane Morris Takeaways: \u00a0<\/strong>On October 13, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom, issued a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SB-7-Veto.pdf\">written statement<\/a>\u00a0declining to sign Senate Bill 7 \u2013 called the \u201cNo Robo Bosses\u201d Act (the \u201cAct\u201d).\u00a0 While the Act aimed to restrict when and how employers could use automated decision-making systems and artificial intelligence, Governor Newsom rejected the proposed legislation in terms of the Act\u2019s broad drafting and unfocused notification requirements.\u00a0 Governor Newsom\u2019s statement reflects an initial rebuttal to a wave of pending AI regulations as states wrestle with suitable AI guidance.\u00a0 Given the pro-employee tendencies of Governor Newsom and California regulators generally, this outcome is a mild surprise.\u00a0 Employers nonetheless should expect continued scrutiny of AI regulations before enactment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This legislative activity surely sets the stage for what many believe is the next wave of class action litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/2025\/10\/16\/robo-boss-rejection-california-governor-newsom-pulls-the-plug-on-ai-bill-for-overly-broad-restrictions\/\">Duane Morris Class Action Defense Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alex. W. Karasik, Brian L. Johnsrud, and George J. Schaller Duane Morris Takeaways: \u00a0On October 13, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom, issued a\u00a0written statement\u00a0declining to sign Senate Bill 7 \u2013 called the \u201cNo Robo Bosses\u201d Act (the \u201cAct\u201d).\u00a0 While the Act aimed to restrict when and how employers could use automated decision-making systems and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/2025\/10\/16\/californias-no-robo-bosses-act-wont-get-governors-sign-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California&#8217;s &#8220;No Robo Bosses&#8221; Act Won&#8217;t Get Governor&#8217;s Sign On&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}