{"id":67326,"date":"2019-06-01T20:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67326"},"modified":"2019-06-01T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T00:17:04","slug":"robots-are-not-coming-for-your-job-management-is-merchant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/06\/01\/robots-are-not-coming-for-your-job-management-is-merchant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Robots\u2019 Are Not \u2018Coming for Your Job\u2019&#8211; Management Is [Merchant]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/robots-are-not-coming-for-your-job-management-is-1835127820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u2018Robots\u2019 Are Not &#8216;Coming for Your Job&#8217;\u2014Management Is<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from gizmodo.com by Brian Merchant; with a special thanks going out to Keesa Johnson for her posting this out on LinkedIn<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A robot is not \u2018coming for\u2019, or \u2018stealing\u2019 or \u2018killing\u2019 or \u2018threatening\u2019 to take away your job. Management is.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">At first glance, this might like a nitpicky semantic complaint, but I assure you it\u2019s not\u2014this phrasing helps, and has historically helped, mask the agency behind <strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">the *decision*<\/span> <\/em><\/strong>to automate jobs. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And this decision is not made by \u2018robots,\u2019 but management.<\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">It is a decision most often made with the intention of <strong>saving a company or institution money<\/strong> by reducing human labor costs (though it is also made in the interests of bolstering efficiency and improving operations and safety). It is a human decision that ultimately eliminates the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I\u2019ve often said that if all the C-Suite cares about is maximizing profits &#8212; instead of thinking about their fellow humankind and society as a whole &#8212;\u00a0 we\u2019re in big trouble.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> If the thinking goes, &#8220;Heh &#8212; it&#8217;s just business!&#8221; &lt;&#8211; Again, then we\u2019re in big trouble here.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Just because we can, should we? Many people should be reflecting upon this question&#8230;and not just members of the C-Suite.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Robots\u2019 Are Not &#8216;Coming for Your Job&#8217;\u2014Management Is &#8212; from gizmodo.com by Brian Merchant; with a special thanks going out to Keesa Johnson for her posting this out on LinkedIn A robot is not \u2018coming for\u2019, or \u2018stealing\u2019 or \u2018killing\u2019 or \u2018threatening\u2019 to take away your job. Management is. Excerpt (emphasis DSC): At first glance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,817,387,174,86,112,72,210,403,74,379,353,406,436,437,480,310,212,460,195,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-business","category-career-development","category-change","category-corporate-business-world","category-daniel-s-christian","category-emerging-technologies","category-ethics","category-leadership","category-mba","category-moralsvalues","category-motivation","category-reinvent","category-robotics","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving","category-technology-general","category-tools","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67330,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67326\/revisions\/67330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}