{"id":148748,"date":"2026-03-28T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148748"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:00:10","slug":"ai-collusion-forcing-down-wages-a-bigger-threat-than-job-stealing-robots-ilo-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148748","title":{"rendered":"AI \u2018collusion\u2019 forcing down wages a bigger threat than job-stealing robots: ILO economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe threat to employment posed by artificial intelligence was not a \u201crobot apocalypse\u201d that would steal jobs, but \u201calgorithmic collusion\u201d that could quietly erode wages and workplace safety, Ekkehard Ernst, the International Labour Organization\u2019s chief macroeconomist, warned in Beijing on Tuesday.<br \/>\nWhile public anxiety frequently centred on the potential for AI to trigger a mass wave of unemployment, Ernst said its disruptive potential had been overestimated.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t think that we are anywhere&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3348124\/ai-collusion-forcing-down-wages-bigger-threat-job-stealing-robots-ilo-economist?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe threat to employment posed by artificial intelligence was not a \u201crobot apocalypse\u201d that would steal jobs, but \u201calgorithmic collusion\u201d that could quietly erode&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}