„Iss die Zukunft, bezahle mit deinem Gesicht“: mein dystopischer Ausflug in einen KI-Burgerladen

From the article

>The burger joint is a collaboration between multiple companies using it as a “test kitchen” for the future of fast food technology. The machine for making the burgers is produced by Cucina, a company focused on automating food production, which described its “BurgerChef” as a solution to a “65% increase in food service wages in the past 15 years”. The french fry-making robot, Flippy, was created by Miso Robotics, a local startup founded by a group of CalTech grads.

>I was offered a tour of the kitchen by Denise Koons, who works with PopID, the “biometric ordering” facial recognition company. She demonstrated the various stages of my order. She pushed a button on a nearby screen. The BurgerChef ground a single burger’s worth of wagyu steak to order and then squeezed it out from a tube and tucked it between two metal plates to brown. One hundred and ninety-five seconds later, a plastic arm rotated to receive the browned burger, ultimately dropping the meat into a waiting container.

I’m ok with fully automated stuff like this. What I’m not ok with is the lack of action on the massive impact it will have on jobs.

Creating this future while not addressing the income issues it will obviously create is insane to me but it seems like we’re planning to be reactionary to this issue, atleast in the US. Savings won’t be passed to the consumer either.