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the_skine t1_j9yvfem wrote

Reply to comment by CompromisedCEO in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

Look into how bad Tesla's "Full Self Driving" performs. And that's in an environment with novels worth of rules and regulations that the car has to follow.

A warehouse environment requires drivers of powered lift equipment to do the parts that automation struggles with. Things like situational awareness, making judgement calls, improvising and adapting, simply recognizing when something isn't quite right, etc.

There are some robots being incorporated into warehouses, but this is mostly for smaller product (there's a Tom Scott video about this). It still requires people on powered lift equipment to unload the product off of trailers and move the product around the warehouse. Not to mention the people not on equipment required for the other jobs in between unloading the trailer and product leaving the building, usually requiring lifting product by hand.

Of course, with all of the reddit discussions and YouTube "documentaries" about how automation and AI are coming for "low-skilled" work (that actually requires a lot of skill, but is called that so they can be paid less), it's funny that the jobs that AIs are disrupting are mostly art, music, and writing.

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Kyanche t1_ja2cbjf wrote

> Of course, with all of the reddit discussions and YouTube "documentaries" about how automation and AI are coming for "low-skilled" work (that actually requires a lot of skill, but is called that so they can be paid less), it's funny that the jobs that AIs are disrupting are mostly art, music, and writing.

I despise the term "low skill" because it's so disrespectful, and completely tone deaf from a business perspective. It's like saying "there's nothing we can learn from people who work in that role" except people in these roles are almost ALWAYS the people with the feet on the ground who ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON BEST.

You can almost always tell a well-run organization and a badly run one just by this alone.

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