Good morning!It’s a holiday weekend in the United States. Labor Day commemorates the labor movement and the fight to secure and protect the rights of all workers. Unfortunately, workers are losing ground in the US under an administration that is actively undermining workers’ rights. Artificial intelligence is also playing a role, including in hiring.In an essay for Tech Policy Press, NYU School of Law senior affiliated research scholar and former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) chair Charlotte A. Burrows says AI hiring tools can reject qualified people "for reasons no one—including the employer—can adequately explain." She says gutting disparate impact law makes it worse, because it “threatens one of the few legal incentives for ensuring that automated employment systems actually work as advertised. That’s because civil rights compliance requires that AI used in employment be job-related and serve a legitimate business purpose.”We also considered the plight of data workers this week. Late last month, news stories announcing the shutdown of Amazon's Mechanical Turk were passed between alarmed data workers two days before they received direct notice from Amazon by email. Krystal Kauffmann calls for lawmakers to protect AI's hidden workforce.Read on for more from Tech Policy Press this week!States address AI chatbots and ‘companions’Twelve states now have "companion bot" laws aimed at reducing risks, particularly for minors. Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael…

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