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‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI

2026-06-24 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

Indian garment workers are being strapped with head-mounted cameras so AI can study their every move and eventually learn to replace them. Nothing says 'we value our employees' like literally filming them to train their robot successors. The workers went from laughing at the absurdity to realizing they're documenting their own obsolescence.

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