Amazon Management assumes that software with artificial intelligence will reduce the number of employees in offices of the online retailer. “We will need fewer people who do today’s tasks – and more people for other types of work”.
Amazon -Baas Andy Jassy wrote this to the staff in an e -mail. It is difficult to predict, but “for the coming years” it can be expected that you would have fewer office workers due to AI efficiency gain.
Amazon has around 1.5 million employees worldwide, according to earlier information, around 350,000 office workers are in various positions. The “Wall Street Journal” wrote that the group does not expect other large waves of termination, such as 2022 and 2023 for the next future, but rather expects that jobs released would not be filled again. However, dismissals are not excluded, it was said, with reference to informed people.
Future with independent AI agents
Amazon is mainly based on so-called AI agents: software that can perform tasks independently. For example, these agents can summarize information from internet and data sources, write software, translate language and automate many tasks that time, wrote Jassy. “Agents will be team members with whom we contact us in different phases of our work.” He called the employees to experiment with AI where possible.
It has been discussed for years about how strong artificial intelligence will change the labor market. Recently the market leader of the music streaming Spotify announced that teams should first prove when he was asked for extra employees that AI cannot perform the tasks. And the makers of the Duolingo -Landleer app want to gradually replace external employees with artificial intelligence.
Source: Krone
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