{"id":9960,"date":"2014-01-25T08:49:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T16:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:10:46","slug":"we-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/we-robots","title":{"rendered":"We, robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"location\">by P.H.| WASHINGTON D.C \u2014 The Economist<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>THE late Alfred Lanning, a leading robotics expert, once suggested that \u201crobots might naturally evolve\u201d\u2014that they might one day gain sentience. Sadly, he died at the hands of a robot that, like all the others he designed, was controlled by an omniscient supercomputer known as VIKI, which stood for virtual interactive kinetic intelligence. VIKI had decided that human beings could not be trusted with their own survival, engineered a robot uprising, and then\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/babbage\/2014\/01\/artificial-intelligence-networks\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by P.H.| WASHINGTON D.C \u2014 The Economist THE late Alfred Lanning, a leading robotics expert, once suggested that \u201crobots might naturally evolve\u201d\u2014that they might one day gain sentience. Sadly, he died at the hands of a robot that, like all the others he designed, was controlled by an omniscient supercomputer known as VIKI, which stood [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65055,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/65055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}