Amazon unveils future automation plans to avoid hiring 600,000 people

Amazon is wasting no time in its future ambitions for automation and how artificial intelligence (AI) technology could reshape its workforce.

The e-commerce giant aims to sell twice as many products by 2033 without adding to the American workforce, a shift that could mean more than 600,000 jobs Amazon won’t need to fill, according to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Amazon chief technologist Ty Brady told FOX Business on Wednesday that employees currently working at Amazon will not lose their jobs to robots — instead, the new technology is designed to work alongside humans.

Amazon is hiring 250,000 workers for the upcoming holiday season

“So, speculative hiring is still just speculation, right? But I know that — I know that we’re going to continue to amplify what our employees can do by giving them the best toolkit possible. And that’s using physical AI systems in order to create a safer environment and a more productive environment for employees,” Brady said in an interview that aired on “Mornings with Maria.”

Documents reviewed by The Times reportedly showed that Amazon’s robotics team has a long-term goal of automating 75% of its operations.

Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel told Fox: “Leaked documents often paint an incomplete and misleading picture of our plans, and that is the case here. In our written narrative culture, thousands of documents are circulating throughout the company at any given time, each with varying degrees of accuracy and timeliness. In this case, the materials appear to reflect the view of only one team and do not represent our overall hiring strategy across business lines.” “Our different processes – now or going forward.” Digital news.

“The facts speak for themselves: No company has created more jobs in America over the past decade than Amazon,” Nantel added. “We are actively hiring at operations facilities across the country and recently announced plans to fill 250,000 positions for the holiday season.”

In 2024, Amazon’s logistics division processed nearly 6.3 billion U.S. delivery orders — about 17.2 million per day, or more than 717,000 per hour — according to research from Capital One Shopping.

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Amazon on Wednesday is hosting a “Delivery of the Future” event at a delivery station in Milpitas, California, where the company plans to unveil new robots and artificial intelligence technologies to improve the delivery process.

This comes on the heels of a major Amazon Web Services outage this week that affected several external websites and even disrupted package deliveries, some Amazon customers claimed.

“It is difficult to say exactly how large this effect will be [was]. I know we have recovery systems in mind. “When something like this happens, we can revert back to our on-premises cloud, if you want to think about it that way,” Brady explained. “We’ve seen a significant impact across our deliveries, but we know our customers have had a significant impact there and we take that seriously.”

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