{"id":182,"date":"2016-02-20T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T02:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2016-02-20T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T02:54:52","slug":"basic-income-may-be-needed-to-combat-robot-induced-unemployment-leading-ai-expert-says-news-lifestyle-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/20\/basic-income-may-be-needed-to-combat-robot-induced-unemployment-leading-ai-expert-says-news-lifestyle-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic income may be needed to combat robot-induced unemployment, leading AI expert says | News | Lifestyle | The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dr Moshe Vardi, a computer science professor at Rice University in Texas, believes that a basic income may be needed in the future as advances in automation and AI put human workers out of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/the-moral-imperative-thats-driving-the-robot-revolution_us_56c22168e4b0c3c550521f64\"><em>The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>, Dr Vardi said: &#8220;Our current economic system\u00a0requires people to either have wealth or to work to make a living, with the assumption that the economy creates jobs for all those who need them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-right\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;If this assumption breaks down &#8211; and progress in automation is likely to break it down, I believe &#8211; then we need to rethink the very basic structure of our economic system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/basic-income-artificial-intelligence-ai-robots-automation-moshe-vardi-a6884086.html\">Basic income may be needed to combat robot-induced unemployment, leading AI expert says | News | Lifestyle | The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Moshe Vardi, a computer science professor at Rice University in Texas, believes that a basic income may be needed in the future as advances in automation and AI put human workers out of jobs. In an interview with The Huffington Post, Dr Vardi said: &#8220;Our current economic system\u00a0requires people to either have wealth or [&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-182","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\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}