Andrew Jassy tells white collar workers that such technology means fewer people will be needed for some jobs

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?

  • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    Quick recap for future historians:

    • for a really brief part of its history, humanity tried to give kindness a go. A half-hearted attempt at best, but there were things like DEI programs, for instance, attempting to create a gentler, more accepting world for everyone. At the very least, trying to appear human to the people they managed was seen as a good attribute for Leaders.

    • some people felt that their God-given right to be assholes to everyone was being taken away (it’s right there in the Bible: be a jerk to your neighbor, take away his job and f##k his wife)

    • Assholes came back in full force, with a vengeance. Not that they had ever disappeared, but now they relished the opportunity to be openly mean for no reason again. Once again, True Leaders were judged by their ability to drain every drop of blood from their employees and take their still-beating hearts as an offering to the Almighty Shareholders.

  • melitele@feddit.itEnglish
    281·
    4 months ago

    yes, create a legion of angry, unemployed/unemployable people, that will go well for the capitalist system

  • Zenith@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    4 months ago

    Amazon is currently hemorrhaging executive level and above engineers. Amazon will have to be replacing these jobs with AI cause every one of value has already left/is leaving and filling those jobs with qualified people at that level is actually a lot more difficult than more junior level positions.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    4 months ago

    It takes a special type of shithead to threaten peoples’ jobs to their face without even knowing what the fuck they are talking about.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.worldEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      This is going to be the threat that EVERY employee will hear over the next several years, whenever they ask for any sort of a raise, promotion, etc. “Just be glad we don’t replace you with AI.”

  • alehel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    I get the feeling that simply working at Amazon means your job is at risk.

    • lando55@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      4 months ago

      Ironically, save for specific positions that require facetime and political shrewdness, it is these same prognosticators whose roles can most readily be fulfilled by Ai