I've mentioned Amazon's replacing workers with robots before, they are the most "successful" American company in this space.
Latest plans - eliminate 600K more jobs through automation, in the next 2 years.
This is overstated a bit, as " eliminate" also includes workers not hired.
" This would save about 30 cents on every item that Amazon warehouses and delivers to customers, with automation efforts expected to save the company $12.6 billion from 2025 to 2027."
Highly tied to this, Amazon's getting better in AI - for their own use and to sell to other companies.
With the AI industry "shaking out" winners from losers expected next year, 2026 going to be a very interesting year.
AI/robots are coming for more than white collar jobs; going to be a bumpy ride. I sincerely hope the future will not be dystopian, but at this point it may be a crap shoot.
NYT is paywalled, here is another source:
https://www.theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs
Latest plans - eliminate 600K more jobs through automation, in the next 2 years.
This is overstated a bit, as " eliminate" also includes workers not hired.
" This would save about 30 cents on every item that Amazon warehouses and delivers to customers, with automation efforts expected to save the company $12.6 billion from 2025 to 2027."
Highly tied to this, Amazon's getting better in AI - for their own use and to sell to other companies.
With the AI industry "shaking out" winners from losers expected next year, 2026 going to be a very interesting year.
AI/robots are coming for more than white collar jobs; going to be a bumpy ride. I sincerely hope the future will not be dystopian, but at this point it may be a crap shoot.
NYT is paywalled, here is another source:
https://www.theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs