Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years
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Their shopping experience is so much worse than only 3 years ago. Whatever they are doing, they are doing it wrong.
schrieb am 18. Juni 2025, 19:54 zuletzt editiert vonAmazon is a technology company now. For a long time the storefront and logistics have been a tech demo for Amazon Web Services.
For instance: FreeRTOS
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Their shopping experience is so much worse than only 3 years ago. Whatever they are doing, they are doing it wrong.
schrieb am 18. Juni 2025, 19:59 zuletzt editiert vonEven Bezos has acknowledged that companies really only last 30 years . They inevitably decline. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington,[3] on July 5, 1994
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
schrieb am 18. Juni 2025, 20:07 zuletzt editiert vongo on, do it. do it so we get rid of this addiction
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The people who are predicting that AI will replace X% of jobs are usually not qualified to make that determination. They don't do those jobs, and they don't have any idea what is involved in those peoples jobs. They are way too high up the corporate ladder to have actually been doing any real work in the last 10 years. They were sold some AI product which promises to lay off thousands of workers, and they seem to have believed it implicitly.
What's sickening to me is how enthusiastic they seem to be about ruining their employees lives
schrieb am 18. Juni 2025, 20:13 zuletzt editiert vonIronically, save for specific positions that require facetime and political shrewdness, it is these same prognosticators whose roles can most readily be fulfilled by Ai
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
schrieb am 18. Juni 2025, 20:30 zuletzt editiert vonExactly what a good leader would tell their team to motivate them. /s
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Something I think should be on the same level as "if buying isn't owning piracy isn't theft" is something like "if an ai/robot can take my job why should I have to work"
schrieb am 18. Juni 2025, 21:46 zuletzt editiert vonwhy should I have to work
Because landlords would like to keep their wealth extraction going.
In theory we could get solar panels and batteries for power, some cheap robots for growing food, but all land is owned.
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why should I have to work
Because landlords would like to keep their wealth extraction going.
In theory we could get solar panels and batteries for power, some cheap robots for growing food, but all land is owned.
schrieb am 18. Juni 2025, 21:50 zuletzt editiert vonOn how about "the robot can take my job I only want the money"
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
schrieb am 18. Juni 2025, 23:36 zuletzt editiert vonDid someone tell Amazon that some of the staff they will let go will have access to AI as well and will turn around and start competing with them? Someone should as AI is not just for corporations. In fact it is and may continue to benefit individuals and small teams more.
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 11:34 zuletzt editiert von cocodapuf@lemmy.worldTime for the AI teams to suddenly have tech issues.
"Sorry, the whole codebase is just gone! We have no idea what happened!"
"Must have been the S3 storage"
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 11:56 zuletzt editiert vonAh yes those famous "Agents". They will of course write themselves, adapt themselves to changing environment and run on their own without any supervision.
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 12:28 zuletzt editiert vonBetween AI and Robotics, we will likely have a permanently unemployed segment of close to 50%, or even more, within the next decade.
Not everyone will be able to be retrained to be a robotics engineer or AI programmer, and many, many jobs that are considered entry-level will disappear. Imagine a world where most fast food and retail workers are unemployed.
When 40% of America is unemployed, the government will be faced with 2 options - Universal Basic Income, or reducing the population by 40%. Which solution will each party embrace, and how will they accomplish their objectives?
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Between AI and Robotics, we will likely have a permanently unemployed segment of close to 50%, or even more, within the next decade.
Not everyone will be able to be retrained to be a robotics engineer or AI programmer, and many, many jobs that are considered entry-level will disappear. Imagine a world where most fast food and retail workers are unemployed.
When 40% of America is unemployed, the government will be faced with 2 options - Universal Basic Income, or reducing the population by 40%. Which solution will each party embrace, and how will they accomplish their objectives?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 16:20 zuletzt editiert vonConclusions from a reductionist point of view. Circumstances, problems and solutions are generally complicated.
Moving on.
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Conclusions from a reductionist point of view. Circumstances, problems and solutions are generally complicated.
Moving on.
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 16:45 zuletzt editiert vonHow's the view with your head in the sand?
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 17:18 zuletzt editiert vonIt takes a special type of shithead to threaten peoples' jobs to their face without even knowing what the fuck they are talking about.
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
schrieb am 19. Juni 2025, 23:12 zuletzt editiert vonI just want my shit delivered in under an hour by drones for now please
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Time for the AI teams to suddenly have tech issues.
"Sorry, the whole codebase is just gone! We have no idea what happened!"
"Must have been the S3 storage"
schrieb am 20. Juni 2025, 05:00 zuletzt editiert vonStupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?
Insert malicious code, self destructing functions, have entire batches of code lost or corrupted, hardware damaged, etc?
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Stupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?
Insert malicious code, self destructing functions, have entire batches of code lost or corrupted, hardware damaged, etc?
schrieb am 20. Juni 2025, 05:25 zuletzt editiert vonA company with fuck off amount of legal power?
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Oh, gimme a break.
This jerk is telling his workers that all their jobs are in jeopardy all the time, year after year. No news here. It's just his thing.
Probably he's trying to keep up the fear - booo hooooo...
schrieb am 20. Juni 2025, 05:27 zuletzt editiert vonBut why? Why make them scared they'll lose their jobs at any moment Vs feeling secure?
If they're scared, they'll be seeking better employment, applying for other jobs whilst working this highly unstable one. Probably reduced productivity too, I wouldn't be as productive under that sort of negative environment.
Make them feel valued and secure though and they won't leave, there'll be less workplace issues for you to have to deal with, and they'll work harder.
Unless you see them as completely disposable because the law won't touch you and there will always be desperate people to fill those positions at any given time, fear is a ridiculous thing to want to instill in your workforce.
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A company with fuck off amount of legal power?
schrieb am 20. Juni 2025, 06:19 zuletzt editiert vonSmall acts of sabotage are easy to write off to causality, if well planned.
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Stupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?
Insert malicious code, self destructing functions, have entire batches of code lost or corrupted, hardware damaged, etc?
schrieb am 20. Juni 2025, 06:50 zuletzt editiert vonIt's not a stupid question. From what I hear, people try stuff like this all the time, stuff like putting a bit of code on your employer's system that'll erase important files if you get shit canned and no longer appear on the payroll. It's why a lot of companies no longer give notice when ppl are fired, just have security walk them out. And unfortunately this stuff is often traceable, which means they're risking quite serious prosecution.
I don't like much of what I see, I think it's becoming clear that some new tech is going to have wide ranging and harmful effects. I'm not sure that doing luddite stuff will help but I can understand why people would think that way.
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