{"id":287059,"date":"2016-12-24T03:10:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T02:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/robots-could-replace-almost-half-of-us-jobs-by-2036-2\/"},"modified":"2016-12-24T03:10:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T02:10:54","slug":"robots-could-replace-almost-half-of-us-jobs-by-2036-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/robots-could-replace-almost-half-of-us-jobs-by-2036-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots Could Replace Almost Half of US Jobs by 2036"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Automation through robots and other artificial intelligence could affect nearly half of all US jobs, a report from the Obama administration has found. Education and job-training programs could prevent the sea change from destroying the American economy.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists and economic advisers within the executive branch studied the potential effects of artificial intelligence on the US workforce and economy over the next 20 years, as well as ways to prevent the technological advances from automation from potentially destroying job opportunities for Americans \u2012 which they said it could, for up to 47 percent of jobs. Rather, the authors sought to guide the government\u2019s automation policy to create better economic opportunities for the country as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese transformations will open up new opportunities for individuals, the economy, and society, but they have the potential to disrupt the current livelihoods of millions of Americans,\u201d <\/em>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/whitehouse.gov\/files\/documents\/Artificial-Intelligence-Automation-Economy.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">55-page report<\/a> said.<em> \u201cWhether AI leads to unemployment and increases in inequality over the long-run depends not only on the technology itself but also on the institutions and policies that are in place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The authors compared use of AI to how the Industrial Revolution introduced mass production to the economy, which negatively affected the livelihoods of skilled craftsman, as well as to the rise of computers in the workplace, which benefited white-collar workers.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOutput per hour rose [in the 19th Century] while inequality&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/robots-could-replace-almost-half-of-us-jobs-by-2036\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automation through robots and other artificial intelligence could affect nearly half of all US jobs, a report from the Obama administration has found. Education and job-training programs could prevent the sea change from destroying the American economy. Scientists and economic advisers within the executive branch studied the potential effects of artificial intelligence on the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}