{"592154":{"#nid":"592154","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why Do We Want Robots to Destroy Us So Badly?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek, professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Why Do We Want Robots to Destroy Us So Badly?\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGizmodo\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to\u0026nbsp;Lisa Yaszek, a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, the answer goes back decades. \u0026ldquo;The word \u0026lsquo;robot\u0026rsquo; comes from RUR\u0026mdash;[the 1921 play] \u0026lsquo;Rossum\u0026rsquo;s Universal Robots\u0026rsquo;\u0026mdash;and the Czech word for a \u0026ldquo;slave laborer,\u0026rdquo; she explained. \u0026ldquo;In the play, we create these biological synthetic humans they call \u0026ldquo;robots\u0026rdquo; to do our work, and eventually the robots start killing us off because we\u0026rsquo;re not useful\u0026mdash;we don\u0026rsquo;t do any work.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/why-do-we-want-robots-to-destroy-us-so-badly-1795502565\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2017-05-26 15:24:35","changed_gmt":"2017-05-31 14:09:24","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"faculty spotlight","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/why-do-we-want-robots-to-destroy-us-so-badly-1795502565","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","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":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}