Issue Physical AI is argued entirely from productivity, with warehouses standing in for the whole domain

Summary

The chapter's case is a transfer argument: organizations want the productivity they got from digital AI, applied to physical settings. Everything that distinguishes a machine acting in the world from a model producing text, including physical harm, liability, certification and the displacement of physical labour, is absent from the trend, and one warehouse statistic carries a claim defined to cover robots, drones, vehicles and devices.