{"id":35609,"date":"2017-03-26T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/tech-world-debate-on-robots-and-jobs-heats-up"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:42","slug":"tech-world-debate-on-robots-and-jobs-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/tech-world-debate-on-robots-and-jobs-heats-up","title":{"rendered":"Tech world debate on robots and jobs heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tech-world-debate-on-robots-and-jobs-heats-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are robots coming for your job?<\/p>\n<p>Although technology has long affected the labor force, recent advances in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a> and robotics are heightening concerns about automation replacing a growing number of occupations, including highly skilled or \u201cknowledge-based\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/jobs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few examples: self-driving technology may eliminate the need for taxi, Uber and truck drivers, algorithms are playing a growing role in journalism, robots are informing consumers as mall greeters, and medicine is adapting robotic surgery and artificial intelligence to detect cancer and heart conditions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-03-tech-world-debate-robots-jobs.html#jCp\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;03-tech-world-debate-robots-jobs.html#jCp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are robots coming for your job? Although technology has long affected the labor force, recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are heightening concerns about automation replacing a growing number of occupations, including highly skilled or \u201cknowledge-based\u201d jobs. Just a few examples: self-driving technology may eliminate the need for taxi, Uber and truck drivers, algorithms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1878,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-employment","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35609","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\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58309,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35609\/revisions\/58309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}