“Whilst people are discussing about the usage of A.I. (chatgtp, deepseek and claude) which could lead to mass displacement of workers where there is A.I. programs that shows images (graphic designer jobs in danger?), shows essays (writer jobs in danger?) and even shows code (computer programmer jobs in danger?).”

“What is somewhat new about this form of A.I. is that this threatens jobs that require a high degree of thinking and recently teachers have been complaining about students outsourcing their work to A.I. where they refrain from thinking about how to write the essay and they prefer to allocate their effort more towards writing some prompt out of their laziness.”

“But this isn’t the first time people’s jobs have been threatened by technology where the digitalisation of media led to a decline in photography shops and there were threats to jobs that involve physical labour.”

“Yet much of the discussion focuses on how technology could replace the human labour supply in the markets. What isn’t much discussed is the attempt by companies in replacing human beings with robots as ‘consumers’. There are already companies that are trying to build androids (one of those companies is called, ‘CloneRobotics’ where the ‘CEO’ of that company, he calls himself, ‘Necromancer’ on twitter) where they want to unleash a new form of technology into wider society.”

“Some ficitional stories have pondered on the possibility of a society believes that robots have ‘rights’ and ‘citizenship’. If such an event were to occur the question of the rationality of the consumer could possibly arise where behavioural economics questions the rationality of the consumer on the basis of human biases.”

“But what if the robot became the ‘consumer’? We’ve already seen online how bots and social media algorithms have inflated stock prices and followings of individuals. In other words, we’ve already seen how some actors have been involved in manipulating consumers towards purchasing their products.”

“Yet we mention again, ‘What if the robot became the ‘consumer’?’ If a robot became a consumer, industries that involve customer service, consultancy, prostituition and some other stuff relating face-to-face interaction could possibly collapse as robots do not ‘experience’. In other words, robots could possibly replace several jobs that involve physical manual labour, labour that involves a high degree of thinking and even jobs that involve customer interaction.”

“Then the question arises if the human is viewed by others as incompetent in term of supplying labour and even consuming goods and services, what role does the human play in a possible economy that consists of robots being involved in both production and consumption?”