Amazon CEO: Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize the Company's Employment Structure

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns that within a few years artificial intelligence will revolutionize the structure of employment in the company, becoming a key element of the company's efficiency and development. However, the development of AI will simultaneously create new types of tasks requiring different skills.

Amazon is warning its employees that the introduction of artificial intelligence will have a major impact on the future of employment at the company. CEO Andy Jassy wrote a blog post Tuesday in which he stressed that generative AI will help the company achieve higher productivity, which will likely lead to a reduction in the number of employees. Jassy said that as AI becomes more important, some jobs will become redundant, while new types of jobs will emerge that require different skills.

Jassy explained that while the exact impact of AI on employment is difficult to predict, within a few years the technology will reduce the overall number of employees at Amazon. AI will be implemented in various areas of the company, which will improve efficiency but also change employment structures. The CEO noted that the future of AI is still unclear, but the development of this technology is progressing rapidly, which could soon lead to significant changes in the organization of work.

"Many of these agents are yet to be created, but make no mistake, they are already ready and are being created quickly," Jassy said.

In his speech, Jassy emphasized that AI will not only impact Amazon, but all industries. He pointed to the growing presence of AI agents in every company and field, although he noted that it is still in its early stages. While many of these technologies are still in development, there is no doubt that AI is gaining momentum and will soon become an integral part of the job market around the world.

Encouraging employees to collaborate with AI, Jassy suggested that AI should be treated as a “collaborator” that will support people in various stages of work. Over time, he noted, this technology will become increasingly advanced and useful, helping employees in their daily duties. Jassy argued to look at AI as a tool that is developing at a pace that can benefit the company and its employees.

Warnings about AI’s impact on the job market are not only coming from Amazon, but also from across the tech industry. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has indicated that AI could contribute to rising unemployment by eliminating many jobs across industries. But not everyone shares that view—some experts, like Glassdoor’s Daniel Zhao, note that AI’s impact on employment is still hard to quantify, and that other factors, such as economic uncertainty, could also be responsible for the slowdown in the job market.

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