Facial Recognition: AI and Jobs

One of the many fears about AI include its ability to slowly replace jobs. One such science fiction movie, iRobot, highlights these fears, for the main character hates robots partly due to their constant presence in doing jobs that humans would have done. But even more realistically, self-driving cars are becoming a recent boom in the robotics and AI world with proponents arguing that it could ultimately replace taxi drivers. And Japan is not shying away from using AI to address significant labor shortages that could help convenience stores continue to provide cheap and affordable services. Much like Amazon's cashierless stores, Amazon Go, Seven-Eleven in Japan is using facial recognition and identification cards to reduce employment necessities in the stores. In the growing technological era, having cheaper services that require only minimal human employees will streamline businesses immensely. Although the human element will almost always be necessary for anything automated, at least for the near future, AI can provide a great deal of solutions for menial tasks. If anything, it could provide a relief to many businesses and increase production in the future.