From Drones to Dystopia: The Future of Jobs, Fires & Meta's AI Land Grab | E2140

I want to make one more little point about the labor discussion because Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, dropped a public memo uh yesterday. And the key quote, which I just pulled off, I was thinking like, Jason, it's almost like you're getting the inside scoop. Um, this is what he said about Amazon and their deployment of generative AI products. He says, as we roll out more gen AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today and more people doing other types of jobs.

It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company. That to me is so, yes, true. I mean, we talk a lot about productivity improvements, and when you have more productive individual units, You need fewer of those units. So that to me is the non-doomer take though, because the doomer take is white-colored work's going to evaporate overnight.

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