It’s kind of important to note that Newsom is and always has been a conservative in a very fundamental sense.

The systems are used to do things like: Evaluate whether unemployment claims are fraudulent

Personal anecdote... a few years ago, I was selling my house, and once the sign went up outside, a heap of people started using my address for unemployment (California EDD) fraud. I would get about 10 to 12 EDD paychecks each week, and the fraudsters would show up to rummage through my mailbox. They'd even knock on the door to ask for "their" mail. The second week I got a bunch of paychecks.

I tried reporting this to EDD, but their automated fraud reporting system only accepts employer fraud, not employee fraud. The few people I reached on the phone would dodge the question saying that it was someone else's job. I was pretty frustrated with that, so I called my state representative's office, and after a bunch of calls, her office concluded that EDD didn't have a mechanism to investigate employee fraud; only employer fraud.

It's interesting that they are paying for AI to detect this thing that they didn't care about enforcing.