{"id":95519,"date":"2019-08-29T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/jack-ma-ai-could-enable-a-12-hour-work-week"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T19:22:25","slug":"jack-ma-ai-could-enable-a-12-hour-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/jack-ma-ai-could-enable-a-12-hour-work-week","title":{"rendered":"Jack Ma: AI could enable a 12-hour work week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jack-ma-ai-could-enable-a-12-hour-work-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma told the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai Thursday that artificial intelligence should enable people to work 4 hours a day, 3 days a week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-08-29\/jack-ma-says-forget-long-days-ai-could-bring-12-hour-work-weeks\" class=\"\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>It\u2019s a remarkable demonstration of Ma\u2019s faith in AI, given he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/alibaba-jack-ma-996-workweek-china-tech-industry-2eab05ed-ec90-476c-be7a-262635c25e29.html\" class=\"\">endorsed<\/a> the Chinese tech sector\u2019s standard \u201c996\u201d schedule, which consists of a 72-hour workweek: 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma told the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai Thursday that artificial intelligence should enable people to work 4 hours a day, 3 days a week, Bloomberg reports. Why it matters: It\u2019s a remarkable demonstration of Ma\u2019s faith in AI, given he\u2019s endorsed the Chinese tech sector\u2019s standard \u201c996\u201d schedule, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95519","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\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}