From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrowaf.

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 our 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've found. Yeah. So I've been looking into this because covering the company

for as long as I've had, I saw this huge growth in their headcount and the number of employees

they had. And then in the past few years, it started

essentially plateauing. So you could tell something was starting to happen behind the scenes.

But I didn't realize how much progress they had made until I got my hands on some internal

documents. And these are the internal strategy documents for the robotics and automation team. It documents

sign-offs at the most senior level of the company, and it really showed the breadth of the

ambition that they have, the progress that they see. And what I found in these documents is that

they have plans to avoid hiring more than half a million workers because of using robots.

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