AI Convenience Store Introduction
Okay just when you thought your job was safe from artificial intelligence or AI here’s somebody who has invented an AI powered convenience store. It’s a completely uh glasswalled convenience store where you can see all the products but when you buy something there’s a little robot arm that puts it in the window. Let’s take a quick look at this video. See how it just picks the item, puts it in the window. You want to drink, it puts it in the window. And then it goes down to one of these little um shelves underneath and it can you can.

More Than a Fancy Vending Machine
Get whatever you want. Now granted it’s really not much more than a fancy um vending machine. However it does give more access to the.

Job Implications
Things it does allow buyers to get more than you can find in a vending machine and it starts to eliminate the need for clerks in convenience stores. So that’s a pretty low-level job and if it can do this what other jobs can it take. Do you feel like this is going to be a threat to employment for everyday bluecollar workers. Is it going to replace weight staff, servers at restaurants. Is it going to replace um possibly even warehouse workers even more than it already is. AI can read labels. It can identify products.

⚖️ Future or Job Crisis?
It can understand what humans are asking for. So is this better for the future to make things easier or is it just going to cut jobs and make us all less wealthy.