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4/ This is why we’re asking our Amazon coworkers to sign an open letter with us. If enough of us sign and this letter enters public awareness, it will add a much-needed dose of reality to the larger AI conversation, and may force leadership to respond.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
Open Letter — AECJ
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
4/ This is why we’re asking our Amazon coworkers to sign an open letter with us. If enough of us sign and this letter enters public awareness, it will add a much-needed dose of reality to the larger AI conversation, and may force leadership to respond.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
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3/ Amazon even killed legislation that would have required its data centers to use clean energy. Meanwhile, AWS is helping oil companies drill for more oil and gas.
www.fastcompany.com/90879223/ama...
www.fastcompany.com/90879223/ama...
Amazon claims to champion clean energy. So why did it just help kill an emissions bill in Oregon?
The bill would have required large data centers and crypto miners in Oregon to shift to 80% clean energy by 2030, and 100% by 2040. But Amazon helped kill it.
www.fastcompany.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
3/ Amazon even killed legislation that would have required its data centers to use clean energy. Meanwhile, AWS is helping oil companies drill for more oil and gas.
www.fastcompany.com/90879223/ama...
www.fastcompany.com/90879223/ama...
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1/ Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI. We have just a few years to stop disastrous levels of warming. Yet despite committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2040, Amazon’s annual emissions have grown roughly 35% since 2019.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainabi...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainabi...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
1/ Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI. We have just a few years to stop disastrous levels of warming. Yet despite committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2040, Amazon’s annual emissions have grown roughly 35% since 2019.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainabi...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainabi...
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5/ This is why we’re asking our Amazon coworkers to sign an open letter with us. If enough of us sign and this letter enters public awareness, it will add a much-needed dose of reality to the larger AI conversation, and may force leadership to respond.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
Open Letter — AECJ
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
5/ This is why we’re asking our Amazon coworkers to sign an open letter with us. If enough of us sign and this letter enters public awareness, it will add a much-needed dose of reality to the larger AI conversation, and may force leadership to respond.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
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4/ All this, while Amazon is attempting to declare the National Labor Relations Board, which protects workers’ rights, unconstitutional.
www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n...
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
www.npr.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
4/ All this, while Amazon is attempting to declare the National Labor Relations Board, which protects workers’ rights, unconstitutional.
www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n...
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1/ Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us. Andy Jassy promised Amazon will be full of AI tools and “agents,” that he expects to employ fewer humans, that our (remaining) jobs will be “even more exciting and fun”
www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
The message below was shared with Amazon employees earlier today.
www.aboutamazon.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
1/ Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us. Andy Jassy promised Amazon will be full of AI tools and “agents,” that he expects to employ fewer humans, that our (remaining) jobs will be “even more exciting and fun”
www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
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8/ This is why we’re asking our Amazon coworkers to sign an open letter with us. If enough of us sign and this letter enters public awareness, it will add a much-needed dose of reality to the larger AI conversation, and may force leadership to respond.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
Open Letter — AECJ
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
8/ This is why we’re asking our Amazon coworkers to sign an open letter with us. If enough of us sign and this letter enters public awareness, it will add a much-needed dose of reality to the larger AI conversation, and may force leadership to respond.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
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7/ If these collaborations continue, we will be ceding an unbelievable amount of power into the hands of an increasingly authoritarian government and a few companies willing to abandon any principles they claim to have in the race for AI dominance.
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
7/ If these collaborations continue, we will be ceding an unbelievable amount of power into the hands of an increasingly authoritarian government and a few companies willing to abandon any principles they claim to have in the race for AI dominance.
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1/ Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people. Amazon, Meta, MSFT & Google lobbied to ban state regulation on AI for 10 years; Trump included financial disincentives for state regulation in his AI Action Plan.
www.ft.com/content/52ae...
www.ft.com/content/52ae...
Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
www.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
1/ Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people. Amazon, Meta, MSFT & Google lobbied to ban state regulation on AI for 10 years; Trump included financial disincentives for state regulation in his AI Action Plan.
www.ft.com/content/52ae...
www.ft.com/content/52ae...
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9/ We demand Amazon leadership commit to the following: 1) No AI with dirty energy. 2) No AI without employee voices. 3) No AI for violence, surveillance, or mass deportation.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
Open Letter — AECJ
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
9/ We demand Amazon leadership commit to the following: 1) No AI with dirty energy. 2) No AI without employee voices. 3) No AI for violence, surveillance, or mass deportation.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
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8/ All of this is daunting, but none of it is inevitable. A better future is still very much within reach, but it requires us to get real about the costs of AI and the guardrails we need.
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
8/ All of this is daunting, but none of it is inevitable. A better future is still very much within reach, but it requires us to get real about the costs of AI and the guardrails we need.
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7/ And third, Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people.
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
1/ Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people. Amazon, Meta, MSFT & Google lobbied to ban state regulation on AI for 10 years; Trump included financial disincentives for state regulation in his AI Action Plan.
www.ft.com/content/52ae...
www.ft.com/content/52ae...
Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
www.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
7/ And third, Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people.
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
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6/ Second, Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us.
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
1/ Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us. Andy Jassy promised Amazon will be full of AI tools and “agents,” that he expects to employ fewer humans, that our (remaining) jobs will be “even more exciting and fun”
www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
The message below was shared with Amazon employees earlier today.
www.aboutamazon.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
6/ Second, Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us.
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
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5/ We’re the workers who develop, train, and use AI, so we have a responsibility to intervene. Here’s why we’re sounding the alarm: First, Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI.
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
1/ Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI. We have just a few years to stop disastrous levels of warming. Yet despite committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2040, Amazon’s annual emissions have grown roughly 35% since 2019.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainabi...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainabi...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
5/ We’re the workers who develop, train, and use AI, so we have a responsibility to intervene. Here’s why we’re sounding the alarm: First, Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI.
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
bsky.app/profile/amzn...
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4/ We believe that Amazon's all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, top scientists warn
The Earth could be doomed to breach a key climate target in as little as three years, scientists warn.
www.bbc.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
4/ We believe that Amazon's all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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3/ As employees, we have serious concerns about this aggressive rollout during the global rise of authoritarianism & our most important years to reverse the climate crisis.
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
Democracy in the Shadow of the Global Rise in Authoritarian Populism
Carr Center Senior Fellow Justice Luis Barroso Barroso, President of the Supreme Court of Brazil. Around the world, many longstanding democracies have begun to wither, crumbling under the slow yet adv...
www.hks.harvard.edu
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
3/ As employees, we have serious concerns about this aggressive rollout during the global rise of authoritarianism & our most important years to reverse the climate crisis.
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
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2/ In recent years, tech leaders have accelerated their race to build the most powerful AI first. “Sink or swim”, “AI is not going anywhere”, and “work with it or be replaced” have become mantras in workspaces at Amazon and beyond.
time.com/6255952/ai-i...
time.com/6255952/ai-i...
time.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
2/ In recent years, tech leaders have accelerated their race to build the most powerful AI first. “Sink or swim”, “AI is not going anywhere”, and “work with it or be replaced” have become mantras in workspaces at Amazon and beyond.
time.com/6255952/ai-i...
time.com/6255952/ai-i...
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11/ Help us bring the AI conversation back down to earth. Send this letter to anyone you know who works at Amazon. Ask them to read it and sign it. Amazon’s made it hard to have open conversations internally, so we need your help getting the word out.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
Open Letter — AECJ
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
11/ Help us bring the AI conversation back down to earth. Send this letter to anyone you know who works at Amazon. Ask them to read it and sign it. Amazon’s made it hard to have open conversations internally, so we need your help getting the word out.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
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10/ We believe in building a better world — not in building bunkers to fall back to. We want the promised gains from AI to give everyone more freedom to play and rest, to spend time with family and friends, to be moved by nature, to create, to feel safe being who we are.
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
10/ We believe in building a better world — not in building bunkers to fall back to. We want the promised gains from AI to give everyone more freedom to play and rest, to spend time with family and friends, to be moved by nature, to create, to feel safe being who we are.
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1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
Open Letter — AECJ
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...