{"id":7401,"date":"2020-04-13T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2020-04-13T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T17:34:05","slug":"robots-welcome-to-take-over-as-pandemic-accelerates-automation-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7401","title":{"rendered":"Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But labor and robotics experts say social-distancing directives, which are likely to continue in some form after the crisis subsides, could prompt more industries to accelerate their use of automation. And long-simmering worries about job losses or a broad unease about having machines control vital aspects of daily life could dissipate as society sees the benefits of restructuring workplaces in ways that minimize close human contact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New York Times has a story pointing out that The Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation<\/a>. While AI may not be that useful in making the crisis decisions<\/a>, robots (and the AIs that drive them) can take over certain jobs that need doing, but which are dangerous to humans in a time of pandemic. Sorting trash is one example given. Cleaning spaces is another.<\/p>\n

We can imagine a dystopia where everything can run just fine with social (physical) distancing. Ultimately humans would only do the creative intellectual work as imagined in Forester’s The Machine Stops<\/a> (from 1909!) We would entertain each other with solitary interventions, or at least works that can be made with the artists far apart. Perhaps green-screen technology and animation will let us even act alone and be composited together into virtual crowds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But labor and robotics experts say social-distancing directives, which are likely to continue in some form after the crisis subsides, could prompt more industries to accelerate their use of automation. And long-simmering worries about job losses or a broad unease about having machines control vital aspects of daily life could dissipate as society sees the … Continue reading Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation – The New York Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,58,13,11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-interface-design-and-usability","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7404,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions\/7404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}