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“This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before,” she added.
In plain English: robots don’t call in sick, don’t need benefits, and don’t ask for raises.
Amazon’s profits are up — 13 percent higher than last year’s numbers — but those gains aren’t protecting employees. Instead, the company is using its profits to fuel an AI spending spree.
While thousands of Americans brace for pink slips, Amazon is pouring over $100 billion into AI data centers and infrastructure for 2025 — up sharply from $83 billion this year. That’s money that could have gone to American workers, but instead it’s being fed into the digital machine.
Jassy has made no secret of his intentions. Back in June, he warned employees to embrace AI — or get left behind.
“Those who embrace this change, become conversant in AI, help us build and improve our AI capabilities internally and deliver for customers, will be well-positioned to have high impact,” he wrote in a company memo.
Then came the cold truth: “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.”
That’s the polite corporate way of saying: your job is going extinct.
It’s not the first round of cuts. Between 2022 and 2023, Amazon already eliminated 27,000 positions after hiring aggressively during the pandemic — when Americans were trapped at home under Biden’s lockdowns, panic-buying everything from groceries to toilet paper.
Back then, the excuse was “economic uncertainty.” Now, even with supposed “strong growth,” Amazon is still cutting thousands more. The truth is simple: Jassy and his executives see humans as expensive liabilities compared to AI.
The situation in corporate offices is just the beginning. What’s happening on Amazon’s warehouse floors is even more alarming.
Internal documents obtained by The New York Times show Amazon’s plan to eliminate over 600,000 warehouse jobs by 2033 through automation — that’s nearly half of its 1.2 million U.S. employees.
The company’s robotics division reportedly aims to automate 75 percent of all operations within the next eight years.
At its experimental facility in Shreveport, Louisiana, the future is already here. The warehouse employs 1,000 robots, cutting staffing needs by 25 percent in just one year. By next year, the company expects to cut the human workforce in half as even more machines roll in.
“Once an item there is in a package, a human barely touches it again,” reported the Times.
Amazon plans to replicate this model at 40 additional warehouses by the end of 2027, projecting $12.6 billion in cost savings — savings that come directly from American paychecks.
To make matters worse, internal communications reportedly instructed employees to avoid using words like “automation” or “AI” when discussing the changes. Amazon knows how bad this looks — and they’re trying to bury the story.
Economist Daron Acemoglu, a Nobel laureate at MIT, issued a chilling warning:
“Nobody else has the same incentive as Amazon to find the way to automate. Once they work out how to do this profitably, it will spread to others, too.”
He predicts Amazon could soon transform from one of America’s biggest job creators into a “net job destroyer.”
Despite the human toll, Amazon’s stock barely reacted — up just 0.2 percent on the announcement and lagging behind the broader Nasdaq’s 21 percent gain this year. For executives, it’s all about the bottom line.
Workers, meanwhile, get 90 days to find another role internally or take a severance package. And in a cruel twist, Amazon is hiring 250,000 seasonal warehouse workers for the holidays — temporary jobs that could soon vanish once the robots learn to do them, too.
Amazon’s AI revolution isn’t just a business strategy — it’s a warning shot for the rest of the country. The corporate world has seen the blueprint: cut costs, automate jobs, and silence dissent.
This isn’t innovation — it’s industrial-scale replacement of the American worker.
And as Amazon leads the charge, the question isn’t whether automation will take over… it’s how long until there’s no one left to fire.
