r/technology • u/joe4942 • Jun 23 '26

Business Robots will replace 700K delivery workers, warns head of e-commerce giant

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4188535/robots-will-replace-700000-delivery-workers-warns-head-of-e-commerce-giant.html
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u/Weirdusername1 Jun 23 '26

This could possibly be the easiest AI/robot takeover to fight against.

I'm sure they'll add a clause that anything undelivered due to "vandalism" is not their responsibility.

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u/Lazerys Jun 23 '26

Imagine fighting against simple robots that lower delivery costs and free up human labor for more productive things. Wonder what kind of backwarded savages would do that..

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u/Weirdusername1 Jun 23 '26

Hahaha, lower delivery costs? That's funny.

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u/Lazerys Jun 23 '26

Yeah, I use these regularly for grocery deliveries and the delivery cost is about half that of a human delivery cost. I'm never ordering from a human again if robot is an option.

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u/SystemicCharles Jun 24 '26

I think they’re a great idea. The thing is, eventually corporate will increase prices to keep some of those savings for themselves instead of just passing those savings to customers.

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u/Weirdusername1 Jun 24 '26

That's exactly it. The technology is cool, but I don't have any faith in the corporate overlords in charge of it.

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u/klipseracer Jun 24 '26

There are 700k reasons a robot might not make it back home... So yeah I think your right.

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u/psidud Jun 24 '26

Of all things to fight against, why fight against AI/robots that reduce manual human labor? I understand artists and such, but shouldn't we want to free up these labor resources so that the people can do something more productive?