{"id":160,"date":"2016-02-15T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-02-15T07:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:39:18","slug":"robots-destroying-jobs-our-economy-and-possibly-the-world-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/15\/robots-destroying-jobs-our-economy-and-possibly-the-world-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots: Destroying jobs, our economy, and possibly the world | Ars Technica"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/02\/robots-destroying-jobs-our-economy-and-possibly-the-world\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Terminator_28453_4db5a1135e73d67af40067b5_1303953272-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Vardi raised the concerning possibility that an over-reliance on automation and AI could have the same effect on our economy as the Roman dependence on slaves. &#8220;Can our economic system deal with labor participation rates below 25 percent? Below 50 percent?&#8221; he asked. The solution in ancient Rome, he pointed out, was bread and circuses or life as a legionary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/02\/robots-destroying-jobs-our-economy-and-possibly-the-world\/\">Robots: Destroying jobs, our economy, and possibly the world | Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vardi raised the concerning possibility that an over-reliance on automation and AI could have the same effect on our economy as the Roman dependence on slaves. &#8220;Can our economic system deal with labor participation rates below 25 percent? Below 50 percent?&#8221; he asked. The solution in ancient Rome, he pointed out, was bread and circuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-finance","category-robotics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}