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Amazon’s CEO said what others are afraid to admit: Many roles won’t survive AI

Amazon's Andy Jassy called Generative AI a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology transforming nearly every function at Amazon. However, AI won’t just enhance productivity—it will ELMINATE jobs that don’t evolve.

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Published date: 23rd June, 2025
Last edited date: 24th June, 2025
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  • In a candid internal memo on June 17, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called Generative AI a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology.
  • He further added – that AI is already transforming nearly every function at Amazon.
  • But what truly made headlines?
  • His blunt assessment of the future of work (what most CEOs are still too cautious to admit): “AI won’t just enhance productivity—it will ELMINATE jobs that don’t evolve.”

Will AI reduce human employment? Jassy’s message 

In the memo, Jassy clearly stated that AI-led automation would lead to:

  • Job reductions in roles that are being replaced by intelligent systems
  • New job creation in areas that involve building, managing, and deploying AI
  • A long-term shift in how corporate teams are structured and resourced

Advice to employees? Adapt fast

Jassy encouraged Amazon’s workforce to lean into the change:

“Be curious about AI, educate yourself, attend workshops and take trainings, use and experiment with AI whenever you can.”

In other words, the employees who survive and thrive will be the ones who evolve—not just technically, but strategically.

Will CFOs be replaced by AI?

No.

However, the modern CFO must understand how AI tools affect financial models, workforce planning, and risk.

Gone are the days when tech strategy sat solely with the CIO or CTO.

CFOs now need to:

  • Evaluate AI investments
  • Measure ROI on automation tools
  • Translate AI productivity into bottom-line impact

Upskilling isn’t optional—it’s existential

The era of repetitive accounting and finance work is ending. What will remain?

  • Advisory thinking
  • AI oversight and implementation
  • Client-facing roles
  • Platform building and governance
  • Indian finance professionals must now learn prompt engineering, AI policy, automation tools, and above all, how to lead with tech.

Wrapping up…

India is the back office of the world, but automation is climbing the stack. 

Functions like financial reporting, audit support, tax processing, and reconciliation were once seen as stable offshore jobs.

But Generative AI is already cutting hours from those workflows—especially in the U.S.

If Amazon’s model becomes the norm, Indian delivery centers must retool or risk irrelevance.

FAQs

1. How is Generative AI affecting jobs in Finance?

Generative AI is rapidly reshaping the finance industry, automating routine tasks while demanding a new wave of tech-savvy finance professionals.

Repetitive tasks such as accounts payable/receivable, bank reconciliations, financial reporting drafts are being automated. Plus, Gen AI can write board-ready financial memos, first drafts of audit reports, and even investor decks & summaries.

  • Amazon – 1,000+ internal GenAI projects reducing headcount in support and development roles
  • JPMorgan Chase – $18B tech investment; 100+ AI tools; 30% slash in servicing costs, 10% headcount reduction in fraud & ops
  • Wells Fargo – CFO reports AI across finance and customer service; focusing on augmentation, not replacement

2. Will AI replace finance and accounting jobs?

AI will not eliminate finance jobs entirely, but it will automating routine tasks such as data entry, reconciliation, and report drafting. The remaining roles will require AI oversight, high-level analysis, and strategic insight, not manual processing.

3. What AI skills should finance professionals develop?

  • Prompt engineering for tools like ChatGPT
  • AI ethics, data privacy, and governance frameworks
  • Analytics and BI tools (Power BI, Alteryx, UiPath)
  • AI-enabled forecasting and scenario analysis

Upskilling is essential: Wolters Kluwer reports a 6× planned adoption of agentic AI by finance teams—underscoring demand for these competencies.

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