{"id":181150,"date":"2024-01-22T20:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/people-are-using-ai-and-robots-like-their-new-slaves-li-edelkoort-says"},"modified":"2024-01-22T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:27:37","slug":"people-are-using-ai-and-robots-like-their-new-slaves-li-edelkoort-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/people-are-using-ai-and-robots-like-their-new-slaves-li-edelkoort-says","title":{"rendered":"People \u201care using AI and robots like their new slaves\u201d Li Edelkoort says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/people-are-using-ai-and-robots-like-their-new-slaves-li-edelkoort-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/robots\/\">robots<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI<\/a> is a \u201cnew form of colonialism\u201d that will lead to a resurgence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/arts-and-crafts\/\">Arts and Crafts<\/a>, according to trend forecaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/li-edelkoort\/\">Li Edelkoort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edelkoort has been a trend forecaster since she was 21 and says the discipline has \u201cinformed every single step of my life\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an on-stage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/interviews\/\">interview<\/a> with Dezeen deputy editor Cajsa Carlson at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2023\/09\/05\/downtown-designs-international-emerging-dubai-talent\/\">Downtown Design<\/a> during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/dubai-design-week\/\">Dubai Design Week<\/a>, Edelkoort explained that she is currently thinking about the return of Arts and Crafts, the 19th-century movement mostly associated with British designer William Morris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of robots and AI is a \u201cnew form of colonialism\u201d that will lead to a resurgence of Arts and Crafts, according to trend forecaster Li Edelkoort. Edelkoort has been a trend forecaster since she was 21 and says the discipline has \u201cinformed every single step of my life\u201d During an on-stage interview with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181150","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}