Top executives in some of the largest US companies warn their employees: Artificial intelligence is a threat to your work.

CEOs from Amazon to IBM, Salesforce and JPMorgan Chase tell their employees to prepare for change, as artificial intelligence will either change or abolish their jobs in the future.

Artificial intelligence will “improve stock placement, the prediction of demand and the effectiveness of our robots,” said Amazon Managing Director Andy Jassy in a memorandum on Tuesday, which predicted that his company’s corporate workforce would shrink. At the same wavelength and other top executives who recently raised the alarm on the impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace.

Economists say there are no strong signs that artificial intelligence leads to extensive redundancies in all sectors. But there is evidence that workers in all the United States are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their work and technology is beginning to transform certain roles, such as computer programming, marketing and customer service. At the same time, CEOs are pressured to show that they adopt new technology and achieve results – in motivation for predictions that draw attention that can create additional uncertainty for employees.

“It is a message to shareholders and members of the Board of Directors as well as to employees,” Molly Kinder, a member of the Brookings Institution, said in the announcements of the CEO of Managing Directors, noting that when a company makes a bold statement about the artificial intelligence. “You project you are ahead, that you are hugging the future and adopt it so much that the footprint [της εταιρείας σου] It will look different. “

Some CEOs are afraid that they may be fired from their work within two years if they do not achieve measurable business profits based on artificial intelligence, according to a Harris Poll survey carried out for Dataiku software company.

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Technology leaders have emitted some loud warnings – based on their interest in promoting the power of artificial intelligence. At the same time, the industry has reduced employees in recent years after several hires during the peak of the Coronovirus pandemic and interest rates by the federal bank.

At Amazon, Jassy told the company’s employees that artificial intelligence would reduce some corporate roles in the coming years, such as customer service representatives and software developers, but also change the work for those in the company’s warehouses.

IBM, which recently announced job cuts, said it has replaced a few hundred workers with “agents” artificial intelligence for repetitive tasks, such as interview planning. In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg implied Joe Rogan’s podcast that the company manufactures artificial intelligence that could be able to do what some employees do by the end of the year.

“We, in Meta, as well as the other companies working on it, will have an artificial intelligence that can actually be a kind of medium -level engineer in your company,” Zuckerberg said. “Over time we will get to the point where much of the code in our applications … will actually be made by artificial intelligence engineers instead of engineers.”

Dario Amodei, Managing Director of Anthropic who made Chatbot Claude, predicted last month that half of all office jobs for beginners may be abolished due to artificial intelligence within five years.

At the same wavelength and other leaders in other areas. Marianne Lake, Managing Director of JPMorgan on consumer and community banking, said in an investor meeting last month that artificial intelligence could help the bank reduce the number of employees in procedural services and services related to accounts by 10%. BT Group Managing Director Allison Kirkby implied that progress in artificial intelligence would mark larger cuts in the British telecommunications company.

Even CEOs who reject the idea of ​​replacing people by artificial intelligence on a massive scale warn workers to prepare for change. Jensen Huang, chief executive of NVIDIA, a design company of artificial intelligence chip, said last month: “You will not lose your job from an artificial intelligence, but you will lose it to someone who uses artificial intelligence.”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the Bloomberg Technology Conference this month that artificial intelligence will help engineers be more productive, but that his company will add more engineers to his team. Meanwhile, Microsoft is planning more layoffs amid major investment in artificial intelligence, Bloomberg said this week. Other technology leaders in Shopify, Duolingo and Box have told employees that they are now required to use artificial intelligence in their work and some will monitor its use in performance assessments.

Some companies have indicated that artificial intelligence can slow down recruitment. SalesForce’s CEO Marc Benioff recently described Amodei’s prognosis “worrying” at a conference conference conference, but at the same teleconference, the head of operating and financial director Robin Washington said that an artificial intelligence agent has helped to reduce 50 million.

Despite the warnings of corporate leaders, economists are still not seeing wide evidence that artificial intelligence is leading people to unemployment. “We have little information on layoffs so far”said Professor Laura Veldkamp of Columbia Business School, whose research is investigating how the use of artificial intelligence by companies affects the economy.

Some researchers suggest that there is evidence that artificial intelligence plays a role in reducing jobs for certain specific jobs, such as computer programming, where artificial intelligence tools that produce have become standard. Google’s Pichai said last year that more than a quarter of the new code in the company was originally proposed by artificial intelligence.

Many other workers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools, for everything, from the creation of marketing campaigns to assistance in research – with or without a company directive. The percentage of US workers using artificial intelligence daily has doubled in the last year at 8%, according to a Gallup poll published this week. Those who use it at least sometimes a week increased from 12% to 19%.

Some artificial intelligence researchers say that the poll may not actually reflect the total number of workers using artificial intelligence, as many may use it without saying it.

‘I suspect the numbers are actually higher’said Ethan Mollick, co-director of the Generic Ai Labs of Wharton School of Business, because some workers avoid revealing the use of artificial intelligence, worrying that they will be considered less capable or violating corporate policy. Only 30% of respondents in Gallup survey said that their company had general instructions or official policies for the use of artificial intelligence.

Openai’s chatgpt, one of the most popular chatbots, has more than 500 million weekly users around the world, the company said.

It is not yet clear what the benefits of companies are from the use of artificial intelligence by employees, said Arvind Karunakaran, a member of the faculty of the Stanford University Labor, Technology and Organization.

“Use does not necessarily translate into value,” he said. “Is it simply increasing productivity in terms of the faster execution of people or do people are now doing more high -value work as a result?”

Lynda Gratton, a professor at the London Business School, said the forecasts for huge productivity profits from artificial intelligence remain unproven.

“At the moment, technology companies are predicting that there will be a 30%productivity increase. We have not yet experienced this and it is not clear whether this profit will come from costing costs … or because people are more productive. “

The rate of adoption of artificial intelligence is expected to accelerate even more if more companies use advanced tools such as artificial intelligence agents and keep their promise to automate work, Mollick said. Artificial intelligence laboratories hope to prove that their “agents” are credible within the next year, which will be a greater disruption to jobs, he said.

While the debate goes on whether artificial intelligence will abolish or create jobs, Mollick said that “the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.”