Amazon seems to gently throws his next round of layoffs. In a Message to employees Shared Tuesday, Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, talked a lot about the company’s artificial intelligence tool embrace, and said that it will finally “reduce our total corporate work as we gain efficiency gains” over time. This is only a slightly veiled corporate to “prepare to be replaced.”
Jassy called a generation AI a “once in a lifetime” technology that will change the way the company will work and said that Amazon already uses it in “virtually every corner of the company.” According to Jassy, Amazon already has more than 1,000 ongoing or built generative services and applications and said: “This is a small fraction of what we will last in instance.” So it is clear that the company is in Ia. Amazon said before that it would commit $ 100 billion to invest in AI technologies This year.
As for humans? Well, it seems that Amazon is not so committed to them in the long term. Jassy told the company’s 1.5 million employees that the AI generative “will change the way we do our job” and said that the company ultimately “will need fewer people who do some of the jobs that are being done today and more people who do other types of jobs”.
The underlying message: You could soon be out of work. “It is difficult to know exactly where it comes out over time, but in the coming years we hope that this will reduce our total corporate labor as we get efficiency gains in the use of the AI widely throughout the company,” Jassy wrote.
The CEO offered to his employees, some of whom are likely to be asked how long they will be used, how to survive potentially in the next round of layoffs (or, perhaps, more likely, help to form their future replacements). “As we go through this transformation together, be curious about the AI, educate -attend, attend workshops and do training, use and experience with and as long as you can, participate in your team’s rain to find out how to invent our customers faster and faster and how to do it with more devoted teams.”
Amazon has been in the process of stripping its labor force to the bones in the departments that seem less. The company Cut about 100 people Since your devices and services team earlier this year and the same number of his book department. By CNBCHe has fired about 27,000 people since 2022 and has his eyes on more cuts.
It is difficult to look at the message of Jassy Ai-Forward, as well as an indicator that there are more layoffs around the corner. AI’s hype may only be a cynical attempt to position themselves as a leader in the industry when the real goal is to reduce salaries to increase the price of shares. It would not be the first company to try to go to the Cost of Human Labor. Early this year Klarna announced that it was Return to recover human customer service representatives After trying to leave the task in the IA after finding the results they are not excellent and people do not like to deal with the agents of the AI.
