Employees need to work AI into their jobs now. "It's neither doom nor utopia," said one career coach.

Amazon is warning its employees that artificial intelligence will help the company have a smaller workforce in the future. In a blog post Tuesday that was sent out earlier to employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that efficiency gains from AI would allow the company to eventually have a reduced human workforce.

Andy Jassy Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told staff Tuesday that widespread automation via generative AI will shrink its corporate ranks

Rollout of generative AI and agents will reduce Amazon's total corporate workforce in the next few years, Andy Jassy, CEO of the online retailer said in a note to employees on Tuesday.

Amazon has told its white collar employees that their jobs are at risk from artificial intelligence in the next few years, marking a rare explicit warning from a senior tech executive that AI will lead to lay-offs.

Jassy called generative AI a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that will change the way the company operates, and said Amazon is already using it in “virtually every corner of the company.” According to Jassy,

Amazon boss Andy Jassy has told staff to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and warned the technology will lead to a smaller corporate workforce in the next few years. He shared the prediction in a memo to staff on Tuesday, which urged employees to "be curious about AI".

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects that AI automations will both change how people work and change the number of people needed.

He said that, in the next few years, "efficiency gains" from AI would translate to a smaller corporate workforce.Marlo Lyons, a certified executive coach, told Business Insider that jobs will inevitably change — including outright disappearances.