00:00Amazon has axed 16,000 workers in the latest round of layout.
00:05And many suspect AI is to blame.
00:08Remember all that talk about.
00:10AI is coming for your job.
00:11Well, this is an early example of what that might actually look.
00:15Like in practice back in October, the everything company gave 14,000 workers.
00:20They're walking papers.
00:21At the time, a senior VP said, quote, this generation of.
00:25AI is the most transformative technology we've seen since the internet and it's enabled.
00:30Companies to innovate much faster than ever before.
00:32We're convinced that we need to be.
00:35Organized more leanly with fewer layers and more ownership, which honestly.
00:40Sounds a lot like something AI would have written.
00:43Now, the latest round of layoffs is.
00:45Importantly affecting web services, retail, prime video, and HR, the consultant.
00:50Firm challenger gray and Christmas claims that AI killed 55,000.
00:55jobs in the United States last year.
00:57And Amazon has already implemented the tech in a.
01:00variety of consumer facing roles, like an AI shopping assistant, which from personal experience.
01:05is less than useless and internal AI assistance to help with worker productivity.
01:10Software development, maybe, just maybe, they should consider using it for.
01:15Emails since human management at Amazon totally bungled the layoffs.
01:20Mistakenly emailing some employees in its web services division before the official.
01:25announcement was made, and the affected employees had even been notified.
01:28The layoffs came a day after.
01:30After the company announced it would shutter all its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go brick and mortar stores.
01:35to focus on Whole Foods.
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