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You can start by thinking about how you might be able to complement the existing workers. Is there a way that the machines could be made useful for them, instead of replacing them? Is there other work, other bottlenecked parts of the process that might be able to use more labour? I know you said no, but perhaps with a little more ingenuity you'll see something.
Also, for my own personal satisfaction, could you indicate what humanoids you're interested in? I'm on record as being very down on humanoids for maintenance/controllability reasons, is there something new I've missed?
I grossly misspoke in my original post: I think complementation would happen first, then eventually substitution. I am unsure of exact timelines here and venture to say 10+ years with low confidence. My immediate “moral concern” is that the complementation benefits would be enough to justify firing workers sooner because now everyone is X times as productive.
I haven’t done substantial research, but the Figure AI robots seem promising. And while I suspect their press releases are overhyping their results (much like BD’s Atlas hasn’t been widely implemented to my knowledge despite being introduced many years ago), they have actual production units in factories doing simple work, which is a plus in my mind. Open to any more thoughts you have!
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