California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered officials to start work on a plan to mitigate the job-destroying impact of artificial intelligence, the first US state to do so. "California has never sat back and watched as the future happened to us -- and we won't start now," he said.

The move follows massive layoffs at California-based Meta.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing state agencies to develop severance standards, workforce training, and hiring tracking to address AI job…