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What Madness! 1000 Humans Fired But 50 Robots Installed!

We have the case of General motors, which is one of the leading automobile manufacturers in the United States and they have done something extremely unexpected.

By:  Tupaki Desk   |   22 Jun 2026 7:26 PM IST
What Madness! 1000 Humans Fired But 50 Robots Installed!
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The global human workforce is currently undergoing an extremely challenging situation due to the artificial intelligence advancement, and also the automation development. This is expanding beyond software industry and even to physical labour.

We have the case of General motors, which is one of the leading automobile manufacturers in the United States and they have done something extremely unexpected.

This leading automobile manufacturer has fired more than thousand people from their Detroit Assembly line and have installed 50 automated robots in their place. These collaborative robots are now doing the Assembly works, that would otherwise be done by human workers.

This has immediately invited the criticism from the human workers union, who are protesting against the company for firing humans and employing robots for their automation process. This has become a major piece of global news already.

You are already witnessing software companies and IT workforces replacing humans with AI tech technologies, and now we have these robots replacing humans in physical labour jobs as well.

This is an extremely detrimental peace of development with regard to human workforce, and it has to be seen how this would be treated by the workers union globally in the due course.

It is already known that the United States is already witnessing a significant human job loss with as many as 26,000 people losing jobs due to AI each month. Now we have this expanding to the physical labour jobs as well, which is extremely bad for the human capital.