From Business Insider, June 17:
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that generative AI is changing the company's workflow.
- He said that in addition to "efficiency gains," he expects that AI could mean white-collar job cuts.
- It's unclear exactly how widespread the reduction in force could be — or when it will happen.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has a blunt new message about AI: It is going to "reduce" the company's workforce in the next few years.
"As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done," Jassy said in a memo posted to the Amazon website. "We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs."
"It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company," he continued....
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