Can CA help its workers survive the AI disruption?
Scheduling note: WhatMatters is taking Memorial Day off and will return to your inboxes on Tuesday.

Scheduling note: WhatMatters is taking Memorial Day off and will return to your inboxes on Tuesday. Is artificial intelligence here to save us or destroy us all?
Like you, we don’t yet. But we heard from some smart people at our Idea Festival Thursday in downtown Sacramento, where one AI proponent tried to assuage public […]
Original reporting: CalMatters.
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