Andy Jassy said the pace of transitioning to AI is a factor to keep an eye on.
He worries that the country’s education system won’t set people up for the future economy.
Amazon has invested heavily in AI, and Jassy said he bets it will change nearly “every experience.”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy considers himself an AI optimist, but even he has reservations about how quickly we’re adopting the technology.
“One of the things we have to watch is that the pace of this transition may be quick, it may be quicker than other technology transitions in the past,” Jassy said while speaking at the Harvard Business Review Leadership Summit on Tuesday. “We have to make sure that we’re responsible about the way the algorithms work and the way the models work.”
Jassy said there will inevitably be unintended consequences of adopting AI and that “one of the biggest problems” doesn’t have to do with the technology at all, but instead the country’s education system. He said he’s worried about a declining quality in education and whether it will equip people for the tools of the future, like coding apps.
“It’s going to be very empowering, but we’ve got to make sure that our education keeps up so people are successful in this new economy,” Jassy said. President Donald Trump has sought to reshape the country’s education system, from K-12 through the university level, during his first 100 days in office.
Ultimately, Jassy said he believes that AI is likely the largest technology transformation since the internet and will improve “almost every experience that we can imagine right now.”
Amazon uses AI across its business — Jassy said the company has a “very substantial investment” in the technology — and is working on a new “reasoning” AI model tentatively scheduled to launch in June, Business Insider previously reported. Other companies, like Google and OpenAI, have released their own reasoning models.
Amazon did not respond to a request for comment from BI.
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