Amazon chief executive officer Andy Jassy outlined a near future where AI will “make our jobs even more exciting and fun than they are today” — but at the same time, he said, the technology will cut the overall number of jobs at the ecommerce giant.

"We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs," Andy Jassy says in a Tuesday memo The post Amazon CEO Tells Staffers to Expect AI-Related Layoffs: ‘It Should Change the Way Our Work Is Done’ appeared first on TheWrap.

Experts see Jassy’s memo—addressed to Amazon’s 1.5 million full-time and part-time employees as of the end of March—as a soft launch of the company’s next round of layoffs.