An Amazon worker used an AI tool to flag which roles were on the chopping block
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- Amazon on Wednesday said it plans to lay off 16,000 corporate employees.
- An Amazon employee used an AI tool to analyze internal conversations and list affected teams.
- The list is AI-generated, so it may contain inaccuracies, and Amazon hasn't responded to verify it.
An Amazon employee used an AI tool to analyze internal conversations and compile a list of potential teams and organizations affected by layoffs, according to messages viewed by Business Insider.
Amazon announced layoffs on Wednesday, saying it would cut 16,000 corporate employees. The company hasn't publicly revealed where it plans to make cuts. The employee's list is AI-generated and appears to be based on internal Slack conversations, so it may contain inaccuracies. Amazon did not respond to a request to verify the list.
Business Insider edited the list for length and clarity. The employee used an AI tool called Pippin to make the list, which Amazon employees have been using increasingly for writing and reviewing documents.
"Used Pippin to help me parse conversations from today," the employee wrote on the company's Slack. "Please note that this info may not be 100% accurate. Take care, everyone!"
Business Insider independently reviewed internal messages related to Amazon layoffs within the AI cloud service Bedrock, the cloud data warehouse service Redshift, the ProServe consulting team, the Prime subscription service, and the last-mile Delivery Experience team.
Wednesday's round of layoffs marks the latest mass job cut since October, when Amazon shed 14,000 roles. Amazon employs more than 1.5 million people globally, though its corporate workforce represents a relatively small share of that total, at roughly 350,000 employees.
Read the list below:
- AWS Sales Organization
- AWS Bedrock
- AWS Quick Suite
- AWS Premium Support/Support Engineering
- AWS ProServe (Professional Services)
- AWS EC2 Networking
- AWS Database Services
- AWS Load Balancing
- AWS Aurora
- AWS Redshift
- AWS RDS
- AWS OpenSearch
- AWS EKS
- AWS Security
- AWS Internet Availability Engineering
- AWS ElastiCache
- AWS Data Center Networking
- AWS Virtual
- AWS Vulnerability Management
- AWS IoT
- Alexa Organization
- Alexa Excellence in D&S
- Alexa Connections team
- Alexa Kids team
- Alexa Shopping Department
- Alexa Smart Properties
- Alexa AI Dev Tooling
- Alexa Devices & Store
- Retail & Operations
- Last Mile
- SCOT (Supply Chain Optimization Technology)
- Amazon Business
- Books
- Seller Support/Seller Partner Services (SPS)
- FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon)
- Customer Service (CS)
- Prime Video (Live TV, Doppler)
- Devices Org
- PXT (People Experience and Technology)
- AGS (Amazon Global Services)
- WWSO (Worldwide Specialist Organization)
- WWPS (Worldwide Public Sector)
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