Why robots are now asking ‘Do you want fries with that?’

Published Jun 5, 2025, 8:00 PM

Fast food giant Hungry Jack's is trialling a new AI serviced drive thru sparking concerns that jobs for young workers could be wiped out. Australian businesses are being urged to embrace the change or risk falling behind the rest of the world.

A first job for so many young people now in the virtual hands of a bot.

What can I get you?

Are you AI?

This Hungry Jack's outlet is the first to test the fast food chain's new AI ordering system. Customers divided on whether it's a whopper of an idea.

Your total is twenty three fifty, please drive through.

So scary it's spark concerns about job security, with fears AI will replace more workers.

There's no question that AI is going to mean a transition in our economy and the far far great majority of instances, it's roles that are being changed rather than roles that are being replaced, like.

In teaching, where it's becoming an essential classroom tool to help reduce burnout.

I think AI is really able to do a lot of the more mundane components of a teacher's work, so, for example.

Marking the role Australian businesses are being urged to seize the opportunity or risk falling behind.

We want to see a strategy that helps us take advantage of all of the opportunities globally that exist with respect to AI.

A leading AI platform in the US has predicted the bots could wipe out half of all entry level white collar jobs in the next five years.

Experts fear it'll lead to.

The loss of soft skills like communication and teamwork in young people.

I think that our society is in for a very dramatic shakeup, and we might be conducting the greatest experiment without really knowing what the outcome might be.

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