Senator Jerry McNerny has returned from retirement to win a senate seat covering parts of San Joaquin County. McNerny has voiced recent concerns about AI and is pushing for government regulation. The author Tim Hunt states that job loss due to AI is inevitable, outlining the tech layoffs and outsourcing of programming jobs to India in the recent years. Hunt sees more of a threat in government over-regulation than the actual AI itself. He cites the past failure of the EV charging station installation project, which had $1 billion dollars allocated to it and only was able to produce 384 operational stations. Hunt also dislikes the new California law that requires at least one employee in each self-checkout lane in hopes of preserving union jobs. Hunt believes that AI will become a big part of everyday life and the best thing we can do is to adapt with it.