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These Indian workers are training the AI that could replace them

Imagine training the technology that could one day take your job. In India, workers are wearing cameras that record their every move to help train AI-powered robots. DW visits a factory in Punjab and

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Where are the robots?
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We need such cameras on all the govt employees of all the kind, especially the top-10%(Judges/IAS/IPS etc).
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best way to supervise
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This is not only happening in India. Don't think of it as something that happens to other people.
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This problem won't go away as long as people don't collectively own the automation systems. Automation isn't bad, rich people hoarding wealth is.
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Now they know what it feels like. For the last 20 years workers in high cost countries like the UK, Australia, Canada trained low cost workers from India (particularly in IT and support roles), the Philippines, who then took their roles with outsourcing overseas.
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Whosoever is simply thinking going to take the same manufacturing process to automate is …..
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Western workers were forced to train Indians who then took their jobs. Payback time.
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Since when india makes humanoid bots?
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@man08839 From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 1
Technology may continue to advance, reaching heights we could never imagine. But if these innovations do not translate into real opportunities for people — such as jobs, livelihoods, and ways to improve daily life — then their benefit will remain limited. In that case, technology will serve only as entertainment or spectacle, not as a true force for human progress.
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I doubt that these specific workers will lose their jobs. After all, automated machines exist today that could do most of their jobs much faster and more precisely, but these machines require a large investment, and this small factory likely doesn't have the funds.
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As an Indian, I think its inevitable.. No point resistin the new A.I and Robotics Revolution.
We just need to find new solutions for societ - New Jobs, Greater Govt Welfare, Alternate Side hustles etc
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a dystopian reality
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Thank god I ve choose criminal as a job 😂😂 can't copy that haha
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1 euro an hour is quite a lot in india. a metal worker will make something like 300€/30 days.
At one point to had cnc operators with 900€ :)
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Extra euro per hour means if they work atleast 8 hours per day that means 240 euro/rs 24000 per month....

Probably they get more money by doing this than their salary
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@sam-37i From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 13
India is not a place to talk about legal frameworks. Whoever does whatever they want.
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@maik_all From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 15
Workers paid an extra Euro an hour to sell your data and take your job
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I believe the term for this is called “building your own coffin”…. Fun, fun.