Amazon shows new human jobs in an AI bot world

Author

Ivan Ilievski
May 13, 2025

  1. The World Economic Forum predicts that 92 million roles will be displaced by current technological trends, but that 170 million new jobs will be created.

  2. Amazon announced major progress toward replacing warehouse workers with robots with its new Vulcan robot that can “feel.“

  3. Amazon is training a small number of warehouse workers to become robot technicians, as it uses robots for the warehouse picking roles.

  4. Robots in Amazon are completing 75% of customer orders have created hundreds of new job categories of jobs in Amazon, from robotics floor monitor to onsite reliability maintenance engineers

  5. To get a job warehouse at Amazon has become the norm to know how to operate and maintain a robot. Just like it became a norm to use PC back in the days.