As proposed, artificial intelligence is gradually taking over the labor sector, thus aggravating the fears of humans in the workspace. While many companies have actively employed the use of AI, especially in the health sector, others are still of the opinion that the replacement of humans by robots is mere speculation buoyed up by fallacies.
In a recent development, and to corroborate that indeed, the human race might, in time to come, be rendered useless with respect to labor, a Lagos State-based food delivery company recently laid off 86 staff members and replaced them with artificial intelligence.
Apparently, the company started off with a total of 120 workers, and after much deliberation on how to reduce the workforce, took to the use of Artificial Intelligence, claiming that the sectors of the company originally handled by the laid-off staff could also be managed by AI.
The company, branded as Chowdeck, maintained that the move was a pragmatic approach to sustain the financial stability of the company, as a smaller workforce would help in cost reduction and accelerate profitability.
With this disheartening move, business technocrats have postulated that more establishments might join the trend of replacing humans with AI, thus launching many back into the job-hunting phase with little or no spectacular results.
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