Natalie Kitro-Eff

Today's episode was produced by Ricky Nowetzki, Shannon Lin, and Carlos Prieto.

It was edited by Mark George and Lisa Chow.

Contains music by Dan Powell and Marion Lozano.

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From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitro-Eff.

This is The Daily.

As the labor market cools and artificial intelligence booms, many workers are worrying about what their place will be in a changing economy.

My colleague Karen Wise got her hands on internal strategy documents from Amazon that offer a glimpse into that future.

In them, she found that the nation's second largest employer plans to replace hundreds of thousands of jobs with robots.

Today, Karen walks me through Amazon's ambitious plans and what they could mean for the American workforce.

It's Monday, November 3rd.

Karen, you know, as well as anyone, that we have been hearing for a very long time that robots are going to be coming for our jobs, especially at companies like Amazon.

But you've been reporting on how that moment that we've all been anticipating is finally here.

So tell us what you found.

That is just remarkable.

Amazon is planning for a world where only a quarter of its operations, you're saying, are done by humans.

Okay, so we're talking about massive change here.