{"id":108157,"date":"2020-06-04T02:04:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/microsoft-is-replacing-its-employees-with-ai-software"},"modified":"2020-06-04T02:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:04:37","slug":"microsoft-is-replacing-its-employees-with-ai-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/microsoft-is-replacing-its-employees-with-ai-software","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is Replacing its Employees With AI Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-is-replacing-its-employees-with-ai-software.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software.<\/p>\n<p>Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft\u2019s MSN website and its Edge browser \u2013 used by millions of Britons every day \u2013 have been told that they will be no longer be required because robots can now do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Around 27 individuals employed by PA Media \u2013 formerly the Press Association \u2013 were told on Thursday that they would lose their jobs in a month\u2019s time after Microsoft decided to stop employing humans to select, edit and curate news articles on its homepages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft\u2019s MSN website and its Edge browser \u2013 used by millions of Britons every day \u2013 have been told that they will be no longer be required because robots can now do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}