{"314481":{"#nid":"314481","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Are Our Jobs Doomed? Pearce on Robots in the Job Market","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECelia Pearce, former assistant professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, was featured on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/08\/06\/are_our_jobs_doomed_report_shows_the_potentially_devastating_effects_of_robots_on_the_job_market\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESalon\u003C\/a\u003E discussing the potential displacement of workers by robotic machinery and artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAlthough they certainly shift and disrupt the labor ecosystem, if you look at the total net effect, history does not bear out the myth that technology replaces people. First, people make technology, and since technology becomes obsolete at an increasingly accelerated pace, the need for people who make it will only grow; second, people are required to maintain technology\u2014technology is notoriously poor at taking care of itself; third, people are also required to assist other people in using technology; and fourth, most technology requires new labor forms.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/add\/external-news?gids[]=1283\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead more...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-08-11 11:14:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:14","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Terry Maple","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/08\/06\/are_our_jobs_doomed_report_shows_the_potentially_devastating_effects_of_robots_on_the_job_market\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2835","name":"ai"},{"id":"1049","name":"Job Market"},{"id":"4012","name":"jobs"},{"id":"1538","name":"pearce"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}