{"id":145735,"date":"2022-09-06T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/its-past-time-to-prepare-for-a-future-where-the-workforce-has-as-many-robots-as-people"},"modified":"2022-09-06T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:22:29","slug":"its-past-time-to-prepare-for-a-future-where-the-workforce-has-as-many-robots-as-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/its-past-time-to-prepare-for-a-future-where-the-workforce-has-as-many-robots-as-people","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s past time to prepare for a future where the workforce has as many robots as people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XdhZnP10n6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There will be No Plan of course, and barring a WW3, i can guess the outcome.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There\u2019s a scene in the movie <i>I, Robot<\/i> where a robot-hating police officer, played by Will Smith, is questioning the manufacturer of a robot suspected of murdering a human. The conversation gets testy, and the robot maker, played by Bruce Greenwood, looks Smith in the eye and says, \u201cI suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don\u2019t know, maybe you would have simply banned the internet to keep the libraries open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Art imitating life? To a degree, yes. Automation, artificial intelligence, and robots are costing people their jobs. But no, none are suspected of committing a homicide as a result. And the last time we checked, none were known to be organizing an AI insurrection, which was the premise behind <a data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0343818\/\">I, Robot\u2019s plot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s fantasy. What\u2019s real is that this country isn\u2019t doing enough to prepare for a future <a data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5876604\/machines-jobs-coronavirus\/\">where millions of Americans with outdated skills<\/a> won\u2019t be able to compete for jobs when a less expensive, automated alternative is available to their employers. There\u2019s no better time than Labor Day to ask Washington to come up with a more definitive plan to assist employees who are in jeopardy of becoming obsolete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be No Plan of course, and barring a WW3, i can guess the outcome. There\u2019s a scene in the movie I, Robot where a robot-hating police officer, played by Will Smith, is questioning the manufacturer of a robot suspected of murdering a human. The conversation gets testy, and the robot maker, played by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145735","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}