--- title: Here's One Job We Should Assign to Robots description: One jobs robots should be doing, taking on video game sexism from the inside and more. canonical: https://time.com/4192555/job-robots-should-take/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-25T17:01:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:32.995Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Here's One Job We Should Assign to Robots og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4192555/job-robots-should-take/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's One Job We Should Assign to Robots twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's One Job We Should Assign to Robots by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 25, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 25, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**This is one job we should happily turn over to robots.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future%5Ftense/2016/01/robots%5Fare%5Fgetting%5Finto%5Fthe%5Fmeatpacking%5Fbusiness.html) By Rachel E. Gross in Slate **2\.** [**Here’s how women are tackling sexism in video games from the inside.**](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-usc-women-video-game-design-program-20160124-htmlstory.html) By Todd Martens in the Los Angeles Times **3\.** [**Is the sharing economy helping to galvanize a new labor movement?**](https://newrepublic.com/article/128230/sharing-economy-labors-next-hope) By Max Rivlin-Nadler in the New Republic **4\.** [**Technology is going to change almost everything we know about food. Here’s how.**](http://recode.net/2016/01/25/in-defense-of-food-technology/) By Kara Nortman in Re/Code **5\.** [**The Navy just launched a guided missile destroyer powered with biofuels.**](http://defensetech.org/2016/01/22/navys-great-green-fleet-to-run-on-beef-fat/) By Hope Hodge Seck in Defense Tech  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4192555/job-robots-should-take/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4192555/job-robots-should-take/"},"headline":"Here's One Job We Should Assign to Robots","datePublished":"2016-01-25T17:01:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:32.995Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4192555/job-robots-should-take/","keywords":["Innovation","Food","Navy","Video Games","robots","Uber"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4192555/job-robots-should-take/","name":"Here's One Job We Should Assign to Robots"}}]}] ```