Mehr als 1.000 Amazon-Mitarbeiter unterzeichnen einen offenen Brief, in dem sie warnen, dass die KI des Unternehmens „erheblichen Schaden für die Demokratie, unsere Arbeitsplätze und die Erde anrichten wird“
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/more-1-000-amazon-employees-090200637.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIHuRfNgL_S6zolXjGI1zfiUcItvqIm0WSsKFOhu1NEVSrqn-4GCgnOKk_7sZzBS-zJXj9LL-kNVL8Cgi-DpH_fjdVALqmRNEePxSNaZCMKfP9sWAQV34urW7d0QAdtLAf0AYYoT4sXAKBQkS9Ow3Lt37ULqknji3mxdUjFO_p81
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>Amazon employees are sounding the alarm on AI in an open letter addressed to CEO Andy Jassy and the company’s senior leadership team.
>The letter was published last week with signatures from over 1,000 unnamed Amazon employees, from Whole Foods cashiers to IT support technicians. It’s a fraction of Amazon’s workforce, which amounts to about 1.53 million, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings release.
>In it, employees claim the company is “casting aside its climate goals to build AI,” forcing them to use the tech while working toward cutting its workforce in favor of AI investments, and helping to build “a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people.”
>“We, the undersigned Amazon employees, have serious concerns about this aggressive rollout during the global rise of authoritarianism and our most important years to reverse the climate crisis,” the letter’s authors wrote. “We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.”
>The letter pointed out that Amazon’s global carbon emissions have increased since 2019, despite its net-zero goal by 2040.
>*Amazon told Fortune in a statement that the claim the company has abandoned its climate commitments is “categorically false and ignores the facts.”*
>*“Amazon is already committed to powering our operations even more sustainably and investing in carbon-free energy. This includes supporting two advanced nuclear energy agreements and investing in more than 600 renewable energy projects worldwide,” Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser told Fortune in the statement, adding that the company is working to make operations more energy efficient, including data centers.*
AI isn’t going away. Until its legally regulated, we won’t see any changes. Amazon of all orgs will not care about this letter and will crush anyone in opposition, just like the unions.
It’s interesting that the loudest warnings about AI often come from the people building it.
Are they genuinely worried about the technology, or about the companies choosing profit over safety?
Those 1000 employees signed up for a paycheck to do all of those things, before AI was a threat.
You want change? General strike.
Yet they happily collect their paychecks and vest RSUs.