June 18, 2025 • 10 mins
Amazon Says Robots Are Gunning For Their Jobs. Should We Be Worried?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The big boss man of Amazon, one of the biggest
countries or one of the biggest companies in the country.
Andy Jassey says that artificial intelligence is coming and it's
probably gonna net us in needing less people to fill jobs.
And Okay, so this is and he's saying this is
going to happen across a bunch of industries. And I
don't disagree with him, really, but how's that going to
(00:20):
affect us our workforce? And what's going on? Well, if
phone lines are open, if you've got some thoughts and
the number four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
Four h two five five eight eleven ten, got Bill
on the line today, Bill, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'll go to an Emory big fan.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Thanks man, You and Matt appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I get in on you and Mamaha and des moin.
I'm a truck driver.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh so you're a truck driver. We were talking about
you guys and what that might look like. So have
you been affected by artificial intelligence or automation?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
At this point, I have not been effected on my job.
But as I was telling that, I'm coming out of
Kansas City right now, heading to your city and I
have a load on right now, packaged and completely loaded
(01:13):
by robots.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh so you didn't have a you know people there
that were loading things up with a forkliff or anything.
It was just a robot.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So I mean the robot from the time I get
on the premises. The factory is probably about the size
of two football fields, and there's probably ten cars in
the parking lot. From packaging to loading is all automated
for me checking in, I punch in a number, it
(01:43):
gives me a door assignment. I back in there. The
trailer is completely empty of everything, and it loads the trailer.
It gives me a light. I go punching that number,
and an ATM looking machine prints me out the paperwork. Okay,
that is all human interaction, that is at all.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's very weird, and I'm sure it's streamline effort for
costs and everything. But has that made your job at
all any more difficult as a truck driver or are
you just kind of doing the same thing. It's just
not seeing any humans.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It actually makes my life a lot easier as being
in the trucking industry. It hasn't affected me yet, There
haven't some of it, Like you talked earlier, every local
delivery things. But I'm over the road and we haven't
quite figured out how to you know, there's so many
little variations that could affect in transit, you know, like
(02:41):
you know, being able to get that a down right,
you know. So it hasn't affected my part of the
world yet.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
They're claiming it will.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't know how it will affect me, but it's
creeping into my industry. Like I said there, the factories
are now being.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Run by robot That is very interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Bill.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I really appreciate listening to us and calling in with
that perspective today. That's something we didn't know when we
learned today. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I love you guys, you and in des Moina and Omaha.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I appreciate that man making me be appreciate it. Buddy,
thank you so much for listening. It's interesting to hear
him say that he hasn't. I mean, it's easier, right,
and he admits that it's easier. But having the no
human interaction I think is a bit interesting and quite stark.
I think for a lot of people, right, Because I mean, Matt,
(03:31):
I'll be honest with you, I've done the radio show
without you before you'll be gone and I'll do a
radio show. But it's so much harder when I don't
have a human being in here to talk with, you know,
like my energy level kind of goes down when I'm
in here all by myself, you know, when I'm out
on a run. Have you ever gone running by yourself?
(03:52):
It's kind of hard. But when you're around other people
or even another live being while you're out on a run,
there's something that brings the mood up, brings your morale
up while you're on the run, And you know what,
it makes me feel like the world, even if it
is more efficient, could get ultimately a lot more depressing.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I think that there are studies and signs that are
already showing that that because we already do isolate a
lot as a people. I don't know, this is an
interesting topic. It's certainly interesting to me personally. I think
that you know, humans were made to be social, and
(04:30):
I think it's we live in a world that is
increasingly easier and easier to get through your life in
a very unsocial way. I mean, I don't think that's
very healthy.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
With computer and the technology, I mean, you could honestly,
That's the reason why I think during COVID nineteen, I'll
be honest, like, there are a lot of people who
were super afraid of getting sicker all that stuff, But
there are a lot of people who just decided to
be kind of reclusive in general. And you can get
away with doing that because now we can also do
whatever jobs that we have remotely in a lot of ways,
(05:03):
which is you know, like that's pretty crazy in and
of itself, you know what I mean. Like I sit
here a humble man, and I've never had the opportunity
to work remote for whatever it's worth. But there's something
about seeing people that I love. I love being where
the party is.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I want to see as many people down there, Like
when Downtown's going crazy for the Collegural series. I want
to be there. I want to be a part of that.
I want to be a part of all the action.
Right in my head, I can see why these companies
are saying artificial intelligence is going to save us a
lot of money. It will make us more efficient, and yes,
it'll cost some people their jobs, but our company is
going to be better for it. At the same time,
(05:43):
let's just forget like let's not even argue about like, Okay,
so there's going to be less jobs than we have
people willing to work. I mean, is that going to
create kind of a depression air like level unemployment issue
because we have a hard time finding new jobs for
the people who are going to lose their jobs to
artificial intelligence in the next few years. That's a different topic.
(06:06):
I'm just saying from a people to people's standpoint, it
just seems like a pretty depressing development. And that's the
thing you talk about, like buildings and stuff like that.
I don't know, dude, Like if you're talking about just
trying to be creative, the world right now is not
kind of designed for that, right. It's just the world
(06:26):
is very much, at least in our country, you're seeing
you know, like when you remember the old McDonald's buildings
when we were kids. Yeah, they had what looked like
French fries like on top of like the roof thing. Yeah,
and then they knocked all those downs and made them
in these big old squares, and like all the fast
food joints that you ever go to kind of look
the same now. They're just all kind of just a
(06:48):
big block with different lettering on the outside of it.
There's not a lot of character in our architecture in
North America these days, at least in the United States.
You know, a lot of these new arenas stuf, these
new stadiums, they're built with a lot of efficiency, but
they're not really all that special or spectacular. And after
(07:09):
a while, the people who decided, you know what, this
is getting kind of out of hand, we need to
go back to the character, you know, So you look
at some of the nineteen eighties, you know, the seventies
and eighties baseball and football fields and stadiums and stuff.
They all are kind of cookie cutter. They're all about
the same. You can do a bunch of different stuff
in them. And eventually they were like, look, this is
kind of depressing, like nobody really comes for any sort
(07:31):
of atmosphere. And then that kind of went the other direction,
where now all of a sudden, you get a lot
of inspired ideas. You can go to a lot of
these new baseball stadiums or even football stadiums now and
there's a different feel at all of them. I just
wish that would trickle over into kind of our companies,
into our businesses, and to our large buildings, our skyscrapers,
that stuff, and have that kind of inspirational look about
(07:52):
it like it did one hundred and fifty years ago
when people were building things really for the art of
the building as well. Artificial intelligence is just, I think,
a step further away from a depressing humanity.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Well you say depressing and depressed, and I think of
how depressing it can be when you don't feel useful
in life. And I worry about a future where there's
a lot of people who just don't feel very useful.
What's the meaning of their existence if they're not providing
some sort of products or service that helps the world
(08:29):
keep running.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's a brilliant, brilliant idea there, Palm. You cannot forget
about the humanity and all of this. And that's my
hope is that we think about that while we're trying
to be as efficient as possible. I think a lot
of people already are frustrated with Corporate America and the
way that it operates. This is not going to help.
Furthering artificial intelligence and losing real people on the job
(08:52):
not going to help. Mark Coming up News Radio eleven
ten kfab Cameron on our phone line at four two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten, Cameron,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Hello, every how are you today?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I'm fantastic. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well, I'm calling about the AI stuff you guys are
just talking about in the comment that you just made
about how corporate America has not seen too well and
this is not going to be a good thing. To
be honest with you, there are stores overseas that they're
testing this in that are fully automated. There's a McDonald's
I believe it's in Japan that's fully automated. No people
(09:29):
in it at all, does all the cooking and the
stocking of the food when it comes in. There's convenience stores.
So yeah, Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I
don't know how people in the starter jobs quote quote
are even going to have a job anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I mean that is I think a scary perspective
and I just got and I appreciate the call, Cameron,
thanks for listening and being a part of the show.
Curtis sent me an email and said this would be
a world war with people versus artificial intelligence if this
crack continues, and people won't win because computers don't make
mathematical areas errors. It sounds scary and hyperbolic, but it
(10:11):
had better be acknowledged sooner rather than later. I mean,
I don't like to be the doom and gloom guy,
I'll be honest, but I understand how people could end
up revolting at places that have decided that they would
rather employ artificial intelligence for much cheaper and have minimal
errors made. I mean, we have this conversation with a
lot of different stuff. It's so much easy with technology
(10:34):
just to decide to do that versus you know, like
continuing to have to hire people and hope you get
good employees. Maybe as our fault, maybe we haven't been
great employees in some of these places. I don't know. Well,
I guess time it's going to tell and we'll find out.
We'll talk more about this coming up on NewsRadio eleven
ten kfab
The big boss man of Amazon, one of the biggest
countries or one of the biggest companies in the country.
Andy Jassey says that artificial intelligence is coming and it's
probably gonna net us in needing less people to fill jobs.
And Okay, so this is and he's saying this is
going to happen across a bunch of industries. And I
don't disagree with him, really, but how's that going to
(00:20):
affect us our workforce? And what's going on? Well, if
phone lines are open, if you've got some thoughts and
the number four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
Four h two five five eight eleven ten, got Bill
on the line today, Bill, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'll go to an Emory big fan.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Thanks man, You and Matt appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I get in on you and Mamaha and des moin.
I'm a truck driver.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh so you're a truck driver. We were talking about
you guys and what that might look like. So have
you been affected by artificial intelligence or automation?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
At this point, I have not been effected on my job.
But as I was telling that, I'm coming out of
Kansas City right now, heading to your city and I
have a load on right now, packaged and completely loaded
(01:13):
by robots.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh so you didn't have a you know people there
that were loading things up with a forkliff or anything.
It was just a robot.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So I mean the robot from the time I get
on the premises. The factory is probably about the size
of two football fields, and there's probably ten cars in
the parking lot. From packaging to loading is all automated
for me checking in, I punch in a number, it
(01:43):
gives me a door assignment. I back in there. The
trailer is completely empty of everything, and it loads the trailer.
It gives me a light. I go punching that number,
and an ATM looking machine prints me out the paperwork. Okay,
that is all human interaction, that is at all.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's very weird, and I'm sure it's streamline effort for
costs and everything. But has that made your job at
all any more difficult as a truck driver or are
you just kind of doing the same thing. It's just
not seeing any humans.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It actually makes my life a lot easier as being
in the trucking industry. It hasn't affected me yet, There
haven't some of it, Like you talked earlier, every local
delivery things. But I'm over the road and we haven't
quite figured out how to you know, there's so many
little variations that could affect in transit, you know, like
(02:41):
you know, being able to get that a down right,
you know. So it hasn't affected my part of the
world yet.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
They're claiming it will.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't know how it will affect me, but it's
creeping into my industry. Like I said there, the factories
are now being.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Run by robot That is very interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Bill.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I really appreciate listening to us and calling in with
that perspective today. That's something we didn't know when we
learned today. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I love you guys, you and in des Moina and Omaha.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I appreciate that man making me be appreciate it. Buddy,
thank you so much for listening. It's interesting to hear
him say that he hasn't. I mean, it's easier, right,
and he admits that it's easier. But having the no
human interaction I think is a bit interesting and quite stark.
I think for a lot of people, right, Because I mean, Matt,
(03:31):
I'll be honest with you, I've done the radio show
without you before you'll be gone and I'll do a
radio show. But it's so much harder when I don't
have a human being in here to talk with, you know,
like my energy level kind of goes down when I'm
in here all by myself, you know, when I'm out
on a run. Have you ever gone running by yourself?
(03:52):
It's kind of hard. But when you're around other people
or even another live being while you're out on a run,
there's something that brings the mood up, brings your morale
up while you're on the run, And you know what,
it makes me feel like the world, even if it
is more efficient, could get ultimately a lot more depressing.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I think that there are studies and signs that are
already showing that that because we already do isolate a
lot as a people. I don't know, this is an
interesting topic. It's certainly interesting to me personally. I think
that you know, humans were made to be social, and
(04:30):
I think it's we live in a world that is
increasingly easier and easier to get through your life in
a very unsocial way. I mean, I don't think that's
very healthy.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
With computer and the technology, I mean, you could honestly,
That's the reason why I think during COVID nineteen, I'll
be honest, like, there are a lot of people who
were super afraid of getting sicker all that stuff, But
there are a lot of people who just decided to
be kind of reclusive in general. And you can get
away with doing that because now we can also do
whatever jobs that we have remotely in a lot of ways,
(05:03):
which is you know, like that's pretty crazy in and
of itself, you know what I mean. Like I sit
here a humble man, and I've never had the opportunity
to work remote for whatever it's worth. But there's something
about seeing people that I love. I love being where
the party is.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I want to see as many people down there, Like
when Downtown's going crazy for the Collegural series. I want
to be there. I want to be a part of that.
I want to be a part of all the action.
Right in my head, I can see why these companies
are saying artificial intelligence is going to save us a
lot of money. It will make us more efficient, and yes,
it'll cost some people their jobs, but our company is
going to be better for it. At the same time,
(05:43):
let's just forget like let's not even argue about like, Okay,
so there's going to be less jobs than we have
people willing to work. I mean, is that going to
create kind of a depression air like level unemployment issue
because we have a hard time finding new jobs for
the people who are going to lose their jobs to
artificial intelligence in the next few years. That's a different topic.
(06:06):
I'm just saying from a people to people's standpoint, it
just seems like a pretty depressing development. And that's the
thing you talk about, like buildings and stuff like that.
I don't know, dude, Like if you're talking about just
trying to be creative, the world right now is not
kind of designed for that, right. It's just the world
(06:26):
is very much, at least in our country, you're seeing
you know, like when you remember the old McDonald's buildings
when we were kids. Yeah, they had what looked like
French fries like on top of like the roof thing. Yeah,
and then they knocked all those downs and made them
in these big old squares, and like all the fast
food joints that you ever go to kind of look
the same now. They're just all kind of just a
(06:48):
big block with different lettering on the outside of it.
There's not a lot of character in our architecture in
North America these days, at least in the United States.
You know, a lot of these new arenas stuf, these
new stadiums, they're built with a lot of efficiency, but
they're not really all that special or spectacular. And after
(07:09):
a while, the people who decided, you know what, this
is getting kind of out of hand, we need to
go back to the character, you know, So you look
at some of the nineteen eighties, you know, the seventies
and eighties baseball and football fields and stadiums and stuff.
They all are kind of cookie cutter. They're all about
the same. You can do a bunch of different stuff
in them. And eventually they were like, look, this is
kind of depressing, like nobody really comes for any sort
(07:31):
of atmosphere. And then that kind of went the other direction,
where now all of a sudden, you get a lot
of inspired ideas. You can go to a lot of
these new baseball stadiums or even football stadiums now and
there's a different feel at all of them. I just
wish that would trickle over into kind of our companies,
into our businesses, and to our large buildings, our skyscrapers,
that stuff, and have that kind of inspirational look about
(07:52):
it like it did one hundred and fifty years ago
when people were building things really for the art of
the building as well. Artificial intelligence is just, I think,
a step further away from a depressing humanity.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Well you say depressing and depressed, and I think of
how depressing it can be when you don't feel useful
in life. And I worry about a future where there's
a lot of people who just don't feel very useful.
What's the meaning of their existence if they're not providing
some sort of products or service that helps the world
(08:29):
keep running.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's a brilliant, brilliant idea there, Palm. You cannot forget
about the humanity and all of this. And that's my
hope is that we think about that while we're trying
to be as efficient as possible. I think a lot
of people already are frustrated with Corporate America and the
way that it operates. This is not going to help.
Furthering artificial intelligence and losing real people on the job
(08:52):
not going to help. Mark Coming up News Radio eleven
ten kfab Cameron on our phone line at four two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten, Cameron,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Hello, every how are you today?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I'm fantastic. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well, I'm calling about the AI stuff you guys are
just talking about in the comment that you just made
about how corporate America has not seen too well and
this is not going to be a good thing. To
be honest with you, there are stores overseas that they're
testing this in that are fully automated. There's a McDonald's
I believe it's in Japan that's fully automated. No people
(09:29):
in it at all, does all the cooking and the
stocking of the food when it comes in. There's convenience stores.
So yeah, Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I
don't know how people in the starter jobs quote quote
are even going to have a job anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I mean that is I think a scary perspective
and I just got and I appreciate the call, Cameron,
thanks for listening and being a part of the show.
Curtis sent me an email and said this would be
a world war with people versus artificial intelligence if this
crack continues, and people won't win because computers don't make
mathematical areas errors. It sounds scary and hyperbolic, but it
(10:11):
had better be acknowledged sooner rather than later. I mean,
I don't like to be the doom and gloom guy,
I'll be honest, but I understand how people could end
up revolting at places that have decided that they would
rather employ artificial intelligence for much cheaper and have minimal
errors made. I mean, we have this conversation with a
lot of different stuff. It's so much easy with technology
(10:34):
just to decide to do that versus you know, like
continuing to have to hire people and hope you get
good employees. Maybe as our fault, maybe we haven't been
great employees in some of these places. I don't know. Well,
I guess time it's going to tell and we'll find out.
We'll talk more about this coming up on NewsRadio eleven
ten kfab
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