- 1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
- 2/ In recent years, tech leaders have accelerated their race to build the most powerful AI first. “Sink or swim”, “AI is not going anywhere”, and “work with it or be replaced” have become mantras in workspaces at Amazon and beyond. time.com/6255952/ai-i...
- 3/ As employees, we have serious concerns about this aggressive rollout during the global rise of authoritarianism & our most important years to reverse the climate crisis. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
- 4/ We believe that Amazon's all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- 5/ We’re the workers who develop, train, and use AI, so we have a responsibility to intervene. Here’s why we’re sounding the alarm: First, Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI. bsky.app/profile/amzn...
- 1/ Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI. We have just a few years to stop disastrous levels of warming. Yet despite committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2040, Amazon’s annual emissions have grown roughly 35% since 2019. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainabi...
- 6/ Second, Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us. bsky.app/profile/amzn...
- 1/ Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us. Andy Jassy promised Amazon will be full of AI tools and “agents,” that he expects to employ fewer humans, that our (remaining) jobs will be “even more exciting and fun” www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
- 7/ And third, Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people. bsky.app/profile/amzn...
- 1/ Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people. Amazon, Meta, MSFT & Google lobbied to ban state regulation on AI for 10 years; Trump included financial disincentives for state regulation in his AI Action Plan. www.ft.com/content/52ae...
- 8/ All of this is daunting, but none of it is inevitable. A better future is still very much within reach, but it requires us to get real about the costs of AI and the guardrails we need.
- 9/ We demand Amazon leadership commit to the following: 1) No AI with dirty energy. 2) No AI without employee voices. 3) No AI for violence, surveillance, or mass deportation. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
- 10/ We believe in building a better world — not in building bunkers to fall back to. We want the promised gains from AI to give everyone more freedom to play and rest, to spend time with family and friends, to be moved by nature, to create, to feel safe being who we are.
- 11/ Help us bring the AI conversation back down to earth. Send this letter to anyone you know who works at Amazon. Ask them to read it and sign it. Amazon’s made it hard to have open conversations internally, so we need your help getting the word out. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
