Automation was meant to lighten the load, not empty out the payroll. As Amazon axes 14,000 jobs and plans to cut tens of thousands more, the future of work under AI will depend on who owns the machines and what we, collectively, make them do.

Amazon is laying off 14,000 corporate employees with the potential for another 30,000 cuts next year. Early reports suggested the job slashing was part of a pivot to artificial intelligence — the long-expected strategy of replacing costly human labor, with its demands for weekends off, decent pay, and health insurance, with machines that ask for none of this and never bother to question the boss. Amazon has since said the cuts are not in the service of moving to AI but rather a matter of “culture” — keeping the behemoth “Everything Company” lean.

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