{"id":174182,"date":"2026-01-03T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/ai-isnt-going-away-we-need-to-accept-that-and-advance\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:30:09","slug":"ai-isnt-going-away-we-need-to-accept-that-and-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/ai-isnt-going-away-we-need-to-accept-that-and-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"AI isn&#8217;t going away. We need to accept that and advance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2026\/01\/03\/ai-technology-government-regulation\/87954770007\/\">AI isn&#8217;t going away. We need to accept that and advance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2026\/01\/03\/ai-technology-government-regulation\/87954770007\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2026\/01\/03\/ai-technology-government-regulation\/87954770007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-03 04:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.usatoday.com\">www.usatoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Potential societal changes from AI:<\/strong> Artificial intelligence (AI) may fundamentally alter research, communication, learning, and creating methods in America, particularly influencing the younger generation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Skepticism vs. acceptance:<\/strong> While new technologies like AI should be met with skepticism due to their large-scale potential for change, outright refusal to adopt AI risks ignoring the long-term benefits for society.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Economic vs. social benefits:<\/strong> Although some jobs may be rendered obsolete by AI, the technology has the potential to create new jobs, increase productivity, and lead to significant social improvements, such as reducing traffic accidents and saving lives.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Balanced regulation needed:<\/strong> There is a need for careful regulation to address concerns about AI&#8217;s impact on society, but outright bans that obstruct technological progress are deemed shortsighted and detrimental to overall societal growth. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Historical context:<\/strong> Historical technological advancements, like the automobile, eventually improved American life despite initially displacing certain occupations, suggesting that resistance for job preservation alone is not a sound argument against modern technological progress.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI isn&#8217;t going away. We need to accept that and advance. https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2026\/01\/03\/ai-technology-government-regulation\/87954770007\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/21\/NCOD\/86810764007-getty-images-2219783199-1.jpg?crop=2119,1192,x3,y222&width=2119&height=1192&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-174182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174184,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174182\/revisions\/174184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}