{"id":773,"date":"2026-05-29T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:43:41","slug":"are-you-afraid-ai-will-take-your-job-gov-gavin-newsom-wants-to-hear-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Are you afraid AI will take your job? Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to hear from you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Gov. Gavin Newsom knows what tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman think about AI. Now, he wants to hear from San Diegans.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=771\">Meta to slash thousands more Bay Area jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new statewide online poll \u2014 inspired by the same \u201cdeliberative democracy\u201d framework used after the Los Angeles fires \u2014 invites residents to share how AI has impacted them, and what they believe lawmakers should do about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditionally, you put in your vote in a box, and then you get what you get, right?\u201d said Jeffery Marino, director of California\u2019s Office of Data and Innovation. \u201cOr you write a letter to your congressperson \u2026 you just send something into the void.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This poll, though, will stand as a public record, he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a report that says, \u2018We heard you. Here\u2019s what we heard you say,\u2019 and then policymakers are accountable to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents can sign up and offer their thoughts directly on the Engaged California AI Impact Page.<\/p>\n<p>Universities and think tanks often run similar polls, but this is the first state-sanctioned survey in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to poll as many Californians as possible and to date, San Diego is the third most active county in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=769\">Review: Jazz greats celebrate Miles Davis, John Coltrane in concert<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In July, the poll will randomly select a group of 100 Californians to participate in a discussion on how AI affects their work.<\/p>\n<p>The conversations will be moderated by an affiliated coalition of universities and think tanks \u2014 like American Public Trust, Berggruen Institute and Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab.<\/p>\n<p>This survey is different from others; there are no scales or multiple choice. Instead it\u2019s an open-ended conversation or a text box with 1,000 characters.<\/p>\n<p>To gather the most accurate response, the state\u2019s team of data scientists\u00a0will use generative AI tools to turn words into structured data.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marino says their method better captures the \u201cdegree of feelings, thoughts, concerns, and hopes\u201d rather than forcing people into pre\u2011baked categories.<\/p>\n<p>At the end, the department will create a single report that lawmakers can use going into the next legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=767\">Hanh-Giao \u201cHG\u201d Nguyen, candidate for San Jose City Council District 7, answers the Mercury News primary questionnaire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statewide online poll invites citizens to share how they&#8217;ve been impacted by AI and what they believe lawmakers should do about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are you afraid AI will take your job? 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