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candidate · p2026-09-07-051 · not-found

Foxconn Chengdu lighthouse factory. Verified from Foxconn's own release (15 March 2021)

set aside as
NOT FOUND
the researcher's note
Foxconn Chengdu lighthouse factory. Verified from Foxconn's own release (15 March 2021): "Artificial-intelligence-powered optical inspection – decreased manual inspection by 92%", "Increased labour efficiency by 200% and improved overall equipment effectiveness by 17%", "decreased inventory by 25%". No count of people anywhere in the release — not campus headcount, not inspectors displaced. Percentages of inspection work cannot be banded. This is the closest thing in the cluster to a factory entry and it dies on people.n.
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, robots-gig-work
received
2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-robots-gig-work.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00 · researchernot-found — Foxconn Chengdu lighthouse factory. Verified from Foxconn's own release (15 March 2021): "Artificial-intelligence-powered optical inspection – decreased manual inspection by 92%", "Increased labour efficiency by 200% and improved overall equipment effectiveness by 17%", "decreased inventory by 25%". No count of people anywhere in the release — not campus headcount, not inspectors displaced. Percentages of inspection work cannot be banded. This is the closest thing in the cluster to a factory entry and it dies on people.n.
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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