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Trump’s rollback of AI guardrails leaves US workers ‘at real risk’, labor experts warn


Measures issued by Joe Biden were swiftly repealed, leaving employees vulnerable to downgraded jobs

Protections introduced under Joe Biden to ensure the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of AI were swiftly repealed by the Trump administration – as top executives outlined sweeping plans to overhaul the labor force. Among the guidelines removed by the Trump administration were directives issued by the US Department of Labor to ensure employers create and implement AI in the workplace without diminishing job quality or violating workers’ rights. “In the absence of strong guardrails, those tools are creating real-world harms when companies and government agencies use them to help decide who gets a job, who gets a loan, who goes to jail, and a host of other sensitive decisions,” wrote attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union on Trump’s AI executive orders.

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