{"id":54820,"date":"2016-06-21T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/europes_robots_to_become_electronic_persons_under_draft_plan_owners_will_pa\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:00:37","slug":"europes_robots_to_become_electronic_persons_under_draft_plan_owners_will_pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54820","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#39;s robots to become &#39;electronic persons&#39; under draft plan; owners will pay their Soc Sec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s growing army of robot workers could be classed as &#8220;electronic persons&#8221; and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Robots are being deployed in ever-greater numbers in factories and also taking on tasks such as personal care or surgery, raising fears over unemployment, wealth inequality and alienation.<\/p>\n<p>Their growing intelligence, pervasiveness and autonomy requires rethinking everything from taxation to legal liability, a draft European Parliament motion, dated May 31, suggests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-europe-robotics-lawmaking-idUSKCN0Z72AY\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s growing army of robot workers could be classed as &#8220;electronic persons&#8221; and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution. Robots<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54820\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,175,149,168,200,95,673,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-science-technology","category-social-security","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}