Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced.
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Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced.::The robot's human-like shape is bound to reignite workers' fears of being replaced, but Amazon says they're designed to "work collaboratively."
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Maybe but I don't know how they can realistically do anything worthwhile. As forcing companies to keep staff on and not automate isn't a good outcome and isn't fixing the societal issues that make this a problematic scenario.
If a robot/ai/machine can do a job safer, more efficiently, quicker than a person, it should 1000000% be automated by the given thing. This has been happening for hundreds of years in all industries.
I expect eventually both countries will be forced into a income tax based UBI. It sounds weird but it's that or the jobless riot, and even if they didn't, if there's no cash to spend, a company can't continue to operate.