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Amazon's CEO really pushing AI hard huh? Are ya'll ready for this?
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Anonymous
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yeahhh the tech is cool but “leaner teams” low-key sounds like layoffs in disguise 😬 not anti-AI but feels like we’re speeding into this without thinking about the fallout for actual humans
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Anonymous
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it’s cool tech, sure, but this rollout has no guardrails. no retraining plans, no real safety nets just vibes and press releases
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Emily Rose
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they always say “AI will help workers” until suddenly you’re unemployed and they’ve replaced your job with a chatbot named Flo 🤖
Anonymous
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You’re right to be side-eyeing all this. It’s not just warehouse robots anymore . Now it’s AI doing white-collar work too. Writing code, doing analysis, customer support… Nothing’s off limits
Anonymous
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"leaner teams" = layoffs. “efficiency” = do more with fewer people. and AI = they don’t gotta pay or give PTO. the math ain’t hard to follow 😩
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Okay, so I just read Andy Jassy’s big speech about Amazon going all in on Generative AI, and honestly, I’m low-key freaked out. Like, yeah, AI is cool and all. Alexa’s getting smarter, there’s this shopping assistant thingy, robots doing work in warehouses, but the big part that hit me? He’s straight-up saying AI will reduce the workforce. 🤨
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like we’re rushing into this without thinking about the aftermath? Jassy talks about these AI agents doing everything for us, from research to writing code to automating boring tasks. But what’s gonna happen to the jobs people actually do? Are we really gonna replace human workers with robots?
He says it’s gonna make things “easier,” but come on, fewer workers means less jobs, right? And this whole “leaner teams” thing sounds like a fancy way of saying “we’re laying people off.” 😬
I’m not saying AI isn’t cool, but it feels like we're all gonna be left behind in the dust while these “agents” take over. How is this all gonna work in the real world? Or am I just overthinking it? Anyone else worried or just hyped for the future of work with AI?