New York tells its AI workforce commission to deliver policy recommendations by December, citing a 37% fall in the city's entry-level corporate jobs

Governor Kathy Hochul said on 29 September 2026 that New York's FutureWorks Commission has been directed to deliver specific recommendations by the end of December, which her administration will use to shape new policies on the workforce impacts of artificial intelligence. The commission, launched in March 2026 with experts, workers' advocates and business leaders, has been developing proposals through interviews with unions, workers and employers in the industries most affected. The policy areas are data and forecasting, job training and placement, job quality, the social safety net, economic growth and small businesses. The state's own framing of the problem is specific: at launch it cited estimates that more than 30 percent of workers face significant disruption or displacement from AI adoption, and said entry-level corporate jobs in New York City fell 37 percent between 2022 and 2024, a change it called possibly partly attributable to AI. The latest release names administrative, clerical and customer-service roles, the traditional pathways to the middle class, as the jobs experts expect AI to hit first. No employer, no layoff and no job count is involved; this is a state deciding what to do before the numbers arrive, and it puts New York alongside California, whose AI employment bills went to the governor this month.