With the rising usage of AI in the global tech workforce, more than 1,000 Amazon employees have issued an open letter to Andy Jassy, President and CEO of the Amazon, cautioning that the company’s rapid shift toward artificial intelligence is undermining job security, climate commitments and workplace safeguards. 

This movement is actually backed by over 2,400 workers from Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft signaling that concerns once limited to policy circles are now expressed loudly inside the very companies building the technology. The letters follow a series of developments that have unstable Amazon’s workforce. 

Recently, the company confirmed fresh layoffs of around 14,000 tied to the AI automation and revealed multibillion-dollar plans to expand data-center infrastructure in the United States. Employees say these moves have intensified internal pressure to adopt AI tools, raised productivity expectations and increased fears of more job cuts. Their apprehensions captured the flattened and concerned mood after CEO Andy Jassy publicly acknowledged in June 2025 that AI would “likely lead to fewer corporate roles.

However, reactions sparked online as some commentators across LinkedIn and other platforms have argued that AI will reshape the work automating routine tasks while positioning humans for more strategic roles. Many online voices pointed to reports of jobs already vanishing. A widely circulated mid-2025 study by Microsoft listed the roles most vulnerable to automation fuelling additional worry about what the coming decade might hold. 

The backdrop to this protest is Amazon’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem. The company has been channelling billions into new data-centre construction to support generative AI products, both internal tools that aid coding and documentation, and consumer-facing systems.