{"id":24041,"date":"2016-03-28T11:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/robots-are-coming-for-your-job"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:30","slug":"robots-are-coming-for-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/robots-are-coming-for-your-job","title":{"rendered":"Robots are coming for your job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-are-coming-for-your-job2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Companies that sell personal data should pay a percentage of the resulting revenue into a Data Mining Royalty Fund that would provide annual payments to U.S. citizens, much as the Alaska Permanent Fund distributes oil revenues to Alaskans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A viral video released in February showed Boston Dynamics\u2019 new bipedal robot, Atlas, performing human-like tasks: opening doors, tromping about in the snow, lifting and stacking boxes. Tech geeks cheered and Silicon Valley investors salivated at the potential end to human manual labor.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, White House economists released a forecast that calculated more precisely whom Atlas and other forms of automation are going to put out of work. Most occupations that pay less than $20 an hour are likely to be, in the words of the report, \u201cautomated into obsolescence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-wright-robots-jobs-data-mining-20160328-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-wright-robots-job...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies that sell personal data should pay a percentage of the resulting revenue into a Data Mining Royalty Fund that would provide annual payments to U.S. citizens, much as the Alaska Permanent Fund distributes oil revenues to Alaskans. A viral video released in February showed Boston Dynamics\u2019 new bipedal robot, Atlas, performing human-like tasks: opening [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041","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\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67892,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions\/67892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}