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Karen Weise

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
219 total appearances

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The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

They have health care.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

They have parental leave.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

They compete with other local employers for workers.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

And so when you remove or over time kind of decrease the pressure they have on the overall local labor market, it can have an impact more broadly.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

Amazon knows that this is extremely sensitive and kind of radioactive in the communities where they operate.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

And I saw a bunch of documents that show us that they are actively debating how to manage this, how to communicate with their own workers, how to communicate with elected officials and other community members.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

They've debated avoiding words like robot and instead using the term cobot, which implies collaboration with people.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

They've talked about avoiding the word artificial intelligence.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

And again,

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

They know that this is a scary concept because Amazon is a signature employer in the places where they operate and in our country.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

Other people look to them for what the future of work will be.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

And our nation as a whole is not good at helping people work.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

adjust through these transformations in the workforce.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

We don't have a great way of making sure the people who otherwise may have been hired have other job opportunities or have the job training to be able to do the new jobs that come out of a more automated future.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

And so that is where the tension is, is Amazon is moving forward.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

It makes sense for them to try to save this money here and be able to do other things with those savings.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

But they do have this outsized impact on society and in the labor market.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

And the reality is there's not a frank conversation about automation.

The Daily
Amazon's Robot Takeover

And there's no one with an overarching plan of how to help people adapt.

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