General Motors is investing in advanced automation at its flagship electric vehicle manufacturing facility, deploying robots at the plant where it recently laid off thirteen hundred workers. According to Ars Technica, the equipment installation represents the automaker's bet on robotic efficiency in EV production. The United Auto Workers union has sounded the alarm on this trend, warning of a so-called dark factory future—fully autonomous plants with minimal human workforce. The move underscores a fundamental tension in the auto industry's electric transition: the push for manufacturing efficiency versus the protection of worker livelihoods.

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