Filipinos losing jobs to artificial intelligence? Bam Aquino worried

There seems to be no escaping a future where robots and artificial intelligence (AI) get to perform more and more jobs, as sci-fi films warn. But Sen. Bam Aquino is not too excited about reaching such technotopia, as he raised concerns about AI completely doing away with human intelligence and leaving thousands of Filipino workers jobless. Aquino, who chairs the Senate committee on science and technology, filed a resolution on Friday seeking an inquiry into the government's preparedness to address the negative effect of AI on the country's workforce. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has been tapped to develop an AI program in the Philippines to optimize mass production, particularly in the country's manufacturing sector. Artificial intelligence is defined as the capability of machines to imitate human cognitive functions in doing simple to complex tasks.