Amazon On Tuesday, CEO Andy Jassy announced hundreds of thousands of his employees that generative AI comes for their work and that their best choice is to accept the technology.
“Those who take care of this change are trusted in AI, our AI skills can build up and improve and deliver for customers. They are well positioned to have a high impact and to help us reinvent the company.” He wrote in a company-wide email This was also published in Amazon’s corporate blog.
Regardless of how government employees from Amazon get over new AI tools, Jassy also pointed out that there is no place on the bus for everyone: “We assume that this reduces our entire company workforce because we receive efficiency gains through the use of AI throughout the company.”
When I read this note – And I recommend reading the whole thing – Some questions quickly occurred. Are some parts of the huge organization of Amazon very much against the new technology and need a public impetus in Jassy’s perspective (or, the butt)? Seems likely. Is the public memo a Wink-Wink on Wall Street that the company’s heavy AI investments will finally pay off by delivering significant cost reductions? I assume.
Should the note offer a shiny AI cover for upcoming or future mass layoffs that may have nothing or just to do with the fact that AI actually eats some corporate tasks? I think that’s possible, even though I find it less likely.
And are the parts of the essay in which Jassy methodically converts the various possibilities, as Amazon already uses (Ai usesA ritualer that he played more than once this year), designed in such a way that Amazon should penetrate into AI-dominated news cycles, in which many other companies are often not called Amazon? Perhaps.
Regardless of how exactly the goal or the exact impulse and Amazon do not say exactly what the impetus for this public memo was, Jassy seems to be the right leader for the current job-especially when cutting costs or, as he in his annual shareholder letter in April, the bucket “cost avoidance and productivity” of gen AI impact.
I do not want to discount Jassy’s ability to lead on the innovation front. He finally converted Amazon Web Services from his childhood into the today Cloud provider of Cloud.
Since Jassy took over Jeff Bezos CEO in 2021, he has also become the main costs of the company and has felt comfortable in the role.
He has supervised the largest corporate lives in the company’s history in recent years (with other large technology companies such as at MetaPresent alphabetAnd Salesforce Which all lowered the headquarters after the transition in pandemic.
Its logistical teams restored the US camp network and the inventory systems in order to reduce the costs of granting each product to a customer.
And he has also urged teams to accelerate the automation of some storage tasks that could enable the company to do more or at least with less or at least with it.
Some of these steps were required by Bezos, which Jassy had handed over a bloated and sometimes wasteful company when the CEO’s transition took place almost four years ago. However, this close observer of the company also appears that Jassy feels pretty comfortable in the role. Although he enjoys it or just accepts it, I don’t know.
Regardless of whether the Ki -Jobs Shakeout from Amazon turns out to be a painful reduction, gradual new calibration or something completely different, the recent story seems to suspect that nothing else has the right man for the job.
