Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Andy Jassy
Dear Commons Community,
To survive as artificial intelligence transforms the workforce, employees should get to know the technology well.
That’s according to Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Andy Jassy, who outlined yesterday the ways that AI will change how people work at the e-commerce giant — and more broadly.
“Want to keep your job at Amazon? We suggest taking Andy’s advice,” Baird analyst Colin Sebastian wrote in a note to clients. He pointed to Jassy’s recommendations that employees “be curious about AI, educate yourself, attend workshops and take trainings, use and experiment with AI whenever you can, participate in your team’s brainstorms to figure out how to invent for our customers more quickly and expansively, and how to get more done with scrappier teams.”
Amazon had about 1.56 million full- and part-time employees as of the end of 2024, according to its latest annual report. That was up from roughly 1.53 million at the end of 2023.
Jassy’s commentary comes as other companies are stepping up their AI efforts, and their talk around them. Duolingo Inc. recently shared to LinkedIn a note from its CEO, who proclaimed that the language-instruction company was becoming “AI-first.”
“We’ll gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle,” CEO Luis von Ahn said in the post. He noted that Duolingo would also look for AI use when making hiring decisions, and allocate more headcount to teams only if they could show that they couldn’t automate more tasks.
That said, he later took to his own page to clarify the original post.
“I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do (we are in fact continuing to hire at the same speed as before),” von Ahn wrote. “I see it as a tool to accelerate what we do, at the same or better level of quality. And the sooner we learn how to use it, and use it responsibly, the better off we will be in the long run.”
As Amazon goes, so will many other companies!
Tony
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