{"id":75879,"date":"2018-02-11T01:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T09:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming"},"modified":"2018-02-11T01:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T09:42:23","slug":"his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming","title":{"rendered":"His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That candidate is Andrew Yang, a well-connected New York businessman who is mounting a longer-than-long-shot bid for the White House. Mr. Yang, a former tech executive who started the nonprofit organization Venture for America, believes that automation and advanced artificial intelligence will soon make millions of jobs obsolete \u2014 yours, mine, those of our accountants and radiologists and grocery store cashiers.<\/p>\n<p>He says America needs to take radical steps to prevent Great Depression-level unemployment and a total societal meltdown, including handing out trillions of dollars in cash.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Andrew Yang, a former tech executive, is mounting a longer-than-long-shot bid for the White House by warning of economic calamity ahead.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/10\/technology\/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/10\/technology\/his-2020-campa...oming.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That candidate is Andrew Yang, a well-connected New York businessman who is mounting a longer-than-long-shot bid for the White House. Mr. Yang, a former tech executive who started the nonprofit organization Venture for America, believes that automation and advanced artificial intelligence will soon make millions of jobs obsolete \u2014 yours, mine, those of our accountants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75879","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}