Amazon Automation & AI Threat: 600,000 Unskilled Jobs at Risk

Metaverse Planet November 20, 2025Last Updated: November 20, 2025

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Amazon plans to transition all “unskilled” jobs to robots and automation in the very near future. This situation alone could lead to the elimination of up to 600,000 jobs at Amazon.

The fact that the explosion in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) will cause a massive unemployment crisis is a long-standing concern for experts. However, the fierce competition at both the national and corporate level in this area is largely causing this approaching danger to be ignored. Moreover, the public does not seem to have reached sufficient awareness on this matter.

Yet, it may become impossible to overlook this problem in the near future. We are now on the verge of a reality where millions of people are losing their jobs to automation. A critical statement from Amazon this week indicates that this impending transformation has now evolved into concrete plans.

📉 600,000 Jobs Will Be Eliminated at Amazon Alone

Tye Brady, the chief technologist of Amazon Robotics, summarized the company’s workforce strategy clearly during his speech at Web Summit 2025: “We want to eliminate all forms of routine, repetitive, and monotonous work. That is our vision.” Brady’s statement signifies that all “unskilled” jobs at Amazon will be eliminated in the near future.

It is predicted that 600,000 potential hiring opportunities at Amazon alone will be canceled due to artificial intelligence and robots. Internal communications reveal that 160,000 potential hires in the US could become unnecessary by 2027, and this number could exceed 600,000 by 2033.

Amazon’s new 650,000-square-meter robotic fulfillment center in Florida stands out as a concrete example of this workforce transformation. This facility will handle a large portion of the processes for picking, packing, and shipping products using robots. Next-generation robots like Blue Jay and Vulcan can automatically perform approximately 75% of warehouse tasks. Furthermore, the Project Eluna AI model optimizes decision-making processes in real-time, minimizing human intervention.

Amazon has launched the Future Ready 2030 initiative to offset job losses. This $2.5 billion program aims to provide training and upskilling to 50 million people by 2030.

It is argued that this could create new opportunities for people whose jobs are eliminated. However, experts note that current training programs may be insufficient to compensate for job losses, considering the speed of mass automation.

The more alarming part is that this transformation is not limited to Amazon, or even the logistics and retail sector in general. It seems inevitable that this ongoing shift will create a serious unemployment problem across almost all lines of work. The real question now is whether governments will take precautions before this leads to much greater problems.