{"id":22138,"date":"2016-02-15T18:48:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-warn-that-robots-and-artificial-intelligence-could-eliminate-work"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:55:42","slug":"scientists-warn-that-robots-and-artificial-intelligence-could-eliminate-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-warn-that-robots-and-artificial-intelligence-could-eliminate-work","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Warn that Robots and Artificial Intelligence Could Eliminate Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-warn-that-robots-and-artificial-intelligence-could-eliminate-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to start thinking very seriously\u2014what will humans do when machines can do almost everything?\u201d Vardi said. \u201cWe have to redefine the meaning of good life without work.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And increase inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Robots and artificial intelligence have long posed a threat to humans\u2019 jobs, but a group of scientists on Sunday issued an especially dire warning about the impact of such machines.<\/p>\n<p>Several academics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/increasing-use-autonomous-systems-could-threaten-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a> that further advances in automation could result in mass unemployment across a whole spectrum of industries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/063c1176-d29a-11e5-969e-9d801cf5e15b.html#axzz40EHTHKbu\" target=\"_blank\">from transportation to sex work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/02\/15\/robots-artificial-intelligence-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe need to start thinking very seriously\u2014what will humans do when machines can do almost everything?\u201d Vardi said. \u201cWe have to redefine the meaning of good life without work.\u201d And increase inequality. Robots and artificial intelligence have long posed a threat to humans\u2019 jobs, but a group of scientists on Sunday issued an especially dire [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6,1901,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai","category-sex","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62868,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions\/62868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}