More than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an explosive open letter criticizing the company’s breakneck push into artificial intelligence. The Amazon worker concerns focuses on three major risks: massive damage to the climate, loss of thousands of jobs, and the encouragement of surveillance and military use of AI. They are demanding that CEO Andy Jassy and senior leaders slow down and listen. The letter, published on Monday, has already collected more than 1,000 Amazon signatures and more than 2,400 solidarity signatures from employees at Googling, Microsoft, MetaAnd Apple.
Why Amazon workers’ concerns are growing rapidly
Employees say Amazon is sacrificing its own climate pledges to power energy-hungry data centers with AI. At the same time, the company just laid off thousands of employees while praising AI as “transformative.” Many fear they are training the very tools that will replace them.
A senior software engineer told The Guardian anonymously: “Leadership is using AI as an excuse to set impossible quotas and force us to work longer hours.”
The letter also accuses Amazon of helping build “a more militarized surveillance state” through contracts with the Department of Homeland Security, Palantir and defense companies.
Top Demands of Amazon Employees
- Provide all new data centers with only clean energy
- Create employee-led working groups to shape AI policy
- Stop selling AI tools that support violence, mass surveillance or deportation programs
- Protect jobs and give workers real input before AI changes roles
Amazon fires back
Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser called climate accusations “categorically false.” He told Newsweek that the company has been the world’s largest consumer of renewable energy for five years in a row and is investing heavily in nuclear energy to meet its 2040 targets. net zero target.
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CEO Andy Jassy warned employees about this earlier this year generative AI “will reduce our overall workforce in the coming years as the company becomes more efficient.
So far, Amazon has not said whether it will meet with workers or respond directly to the demands.
The growing one Amazon worker concerns highlights a broader concern within the tech sector: who controls AI, who benefits from it, and who pays the price? With the company planning another $50 billion in AI spending, the pressure on leadership is just beginning.
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