Research Brief 003
One Chain: Disclosure and Accountability in AI Commerce
Two original audits examine how disclosure and accountability travel from AI-generated advertising to product recommendations and checkout.
Program I
Responsible AI
Accountability · deployment · oversight · emerging technologies
Selected publications
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Companies Blaming AI for Layoffs Will Have to Say So on the Record
California has signed SB 951 into law. Its AI layoff disclosures will put a public legal record beside the explanations companies give investors and staff.
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Company announcements and state layoff filings produce very different counts of AI-related cuts.
Share of job cuts attributed to AI or automation, from two sources with different populations, periods and definitions, %
Note: Different populations, periods and definitions, so the gap does not measure misreporting or AI’s causal effect. US: 116,175 of 529,914 announced cuts, January–August 2026. New York: 46 of about 25,000 workers in WARN filings, March 2025–late May 2026.
Sources: Challenger, Gray & Christmas; Narayanan and Kapoor, reporting a New York Department of Labor response.
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Who Gains and Who Pays When AI Labs Agree to Slow Down
Research in progress and program context
Horizon Scan 001, AI Governance in Regulated Industries. The AI Governance Pulse and the Governance Readiness Assessment, both published as open-methodology tools. Research Briefs on financial-sector and healthcare AI governance. Track II working sessions on cross-jurisdictional regulatory convergence.
Image credits
- Responsible AI
- Human/robot teaming. Image: S. Bagchi/NIST.