A growing number of Amazon employees have signed onto an open letter issuing some dire warnings about the company’s sprint toward AI.

The letter, signed by more than 1,000 workers and published this week, calls out Amazon for pushing its AI investments at the expense of the climate and its human workforce. The letter’s supporters come from a wide array of roles at the company, including many software engineers, and even employees focused on building AI systems.

“We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth,” the letter’s authors wrote. “We’re the workers who develop, train, and use AI, so we have a responsibility to intervene.”

In the letter obtained by The Guardian, the Amazon employ

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