{"slug": "are-you-afraid-ai-will-take-your-job-gov-gavin-newsom-wants-to-hear-from-you", "title": "Are you afraid AI will take your job? Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to hear from you", "summary": "California Governor Gavin Newsom launched a statewide online poll to gather public input on how artificial intelligence is impacting residents' jobs and daily lives. The survey, part of the state's \"Engaged California\" initiative, allows citizens to share their experiences and concerns in open-ended responses rather than multiple-choice questions. The results will be compiled into a report for lawmakers to use in the next legislative session, marking the first state-sanctioned AI survey of its kind in the nation.", "body_md": "**Getting your**\n\n[Trinity Audio](//trinityaudio.ai)player ready...Gov. Gavin Newsom knows what tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman think about AI. Now, he wants to hear from San Diegans.\n\n[A new statewide online poll](https://engaged.ca.gov/) — inspired by the same “deliberative democracy” framework used after the L.A. fires — invites citizens to share how AI has impacted them, and what they believe lawmakers should do about it.\n\n“Traditionally, you put in your vote in a box, and then you get what you get, right?” said Jeffery Marino, director of California’s Office of Data and Innovation. “Or you write a letter to your congressperson … you just send something into the void.”\n\nThis poll, though, will stand as a public record, he explained.\n\n“We will have a report that says, ‘We heard you. Here’s what we heard you say,’ and then policymakers are accountable to that.”\n\nYou can sign up and offer your thoughts directly on the [Engaged California AI Impact Page](https://engaged.ca.gov/ai-impact/).\n\nUniversities and think tanks often run similar polls, but this is the first state-sanctioned survey in the nation.\n\nThe project aims to poll as many Californians as possible and to date, San Diego is the third most active county in the poll.\n\nIn July, the poll will randomly select a group of 100 Californians to participate in a discussion on how AI affects their work.\n\nThe conversations will be moderated by an affiliated coalition of universities and think tanks – like American Public Trust, Berggruen Institute, and Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab.\n\nThis survey is different from others; there are no scales or multiple choice. Instead it’s an open-ended conversation or a text box with 1,000 characters.\n\nTo gather the most accurate response, the state’s team of data scientists will use generative AI tools to turn words into structured data.\n\nMarino says their method better captures the “degree of feelings, thoughts, concerns, and hopes” rather than forcing people into pre‑baked categories.\n\nAt the end, the department will create a single report that lawmakers can use going into the next legislative session.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-afraid-ai-will-take-your-job-gov-gavin-newsom-wants-to-hear-from-you", "canonical_source": "https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/05/29/are-you-afraid-ai-will-take-your-job-gov-gavin-newsom-wants-to-hear-from-you/", "published_at": "2026-05-29 18:45:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 18:57:26.799461+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Gavin Newsom", "Elon Musk", "Sam Altman", "Jeffery Marino", "California’s Office of Data and Innovation", "Engaged California AI Impact Page"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-afraid-ai-will-take-your-job-gov-gavin-newsom-wants-to-hear-from-you", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-afraid-ai-will-take-your-job-gov-gavin-newsom-wants-to-hear-from-you.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-afraid-ai-will-take-your-job-gov-gavin-newsom-wants-to-hear-from-you.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-afraid-ai-will-take-your-job-gov-gavin-newsom-wants-to-hear-from-you.jsonld"}}