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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/   
      
   Inside a multistory office building in Manila’s financial district, around   
   60 young men and women monitored and controlled artificial intelligence   
   robots restocking convenience store shelves in distant Japan.   
      
   https://restofworld.org/charts/?utm_medium=row-charts-link   
      
   Robert said full automation may never be achieved, and some humans would   
   always be needed to monitor automated systems. “Are robots and AI gonna   
   take all the jobs from humans? The answer is no — because humans are   
   pretty useful. The future is a robotic-AI-automation-human hybrid   
   workforce,” he said.   
      
   Some 1,000 global employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum this year   
   said they expect the share of human-only jobs to decline rapidly, replaced   
   by jobs done together with — or solely by — machines. About 41% of them   
   also said they anticipate job cuts as workers’ skills become obsolete.   
      
   That hybrid future is already visible in the Philippines. Aside from IT-   
   service work, Filipino IT engineers are helping build the AI systems   
   transforming how people work globally.   
      
   A young AI engineer for an international firm, which manages data for   
   Amazon, Coca-Cola, and other global corporations, said he is helping build   
   an AI chatbot using an LLM trained on internal data. The bot would respond   
   to employee questions.   
      
   “The goal is to speed up internal processes,” he said.   
      
   International firms are actively seeking IT workers like him, who receive   
   a “Philippine rate,” the employee said. “It’s not so low-ball; it’s still   
   pretty competitive. It’s bigger if you go there [to the headquarters], but   
   then … your monthly expenses [there] can get really expensive.”   
      
   An engineering graduate working in IT services for a top U.S.-based   
   international consulting firm said they helped develop an IT help desk   
   agent, which has drastically cut their workload.   
      
   “Lately, we just handle around six tasks a day,” they told Rest of World.   
   “Every time I’m called into a meeting, I’m afraid of being told I’m not   
   needed anymore.” Hired through an outsourcing company, they work remotely   
   and are paid $874 per month — about 30% less than the American minimum   
   wage for full-time work.   
      
   https://restofworld.org/charts/?utm_medium=row-charts-link   
      
   Filipinos are being used to maximize the profits of international firms,   
   Xian Guevarra, secretary-general of the Computer Professionals Union,   
   which represents computer engineers in the Philippines, told Rest of   
   World.   
      
   “Filipinos are building the tools that could be used to replace them later   
   on. Tech should augment their work and efficiency, not [be] something to   
   maximize profits overseas,” he said.   
      
   Filipino workers are eager to work for foreign companies because they pay   
   better than local firms. Marc Escobar, chief technology officer of   
   Philippines-based startup Sofi AI, was offered a job as an AI engineer for   
   Anthropic, the California-based startup behind Claude.   
      
   He was offered $1,500 a month — high pay for a 22-year-old fresh out of   
   university. But Escobar turned it down. Though Sofi AI pays about half as   
   much, his company believes in creating opportunities for engineers   
   locally, he said.   
      
   “I can’t do it [join a foreign company] because I want to see our local   
   efforts, our company, succeed,” Escobar said. “I want to show that we can   
   also upscale with AI in the Philippines.”   
      
      
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