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Cyreel Zarate

Philadelphia woman blocks Uber Eats delivery robots: ‘These things are taking peoples jobs’

The emergence of artificial intelligence has sparked anxieties about technology’s impact on the human workforce. Fears that human labor will become obsolete and be replaced by computers are mounting as companies increasingly treat employees as expendable in pursuit of higher profits.

This shift now includes tasks that robots can perform, such as food deliveries—a development that led to the arrest of a woman staging a spontaneous protest on the streets of Philadelphia.

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