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Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines: Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI. (restofworld.org)

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[–] GooseGang@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Could this potentially lead to an increasing benefit of destabilizing governments in other countries to keep the cost of labor low?