October 28, 2025

AI, Labor October 28, 2025

30,000! Amazon Announces Largest Layoff In Company History

AI certainly was used to balance the staffing, and undoubtedly will be used to generate the pink slips and send out the emails. This is the harbinger of things to come, and this has nothing to do with robots – that starts in 2026. Amazon intends to use AI and robots to fully automate its operations by 2030, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work. If technology fails to deliver, Amazon will find its smoldering carcass in the dumpster.

AI October 28, 2025

Is Agentic Artificial Intelligence Modeled After The Milgram Experiment?

Boom asks, “Is it possible that the creators of so-called Agentic AI are actually designing a machine that will take advantage of those 65 % – 92 % of humans who are more susceptible to adopting a Agentic State when put under stress?” When AI barks orders over the best judgment of the subjects, especially when AI Agents are used, then the subjects risk entering into the Agentic State. This shifts the formerly autonomous person into blind obedience, willing to do any evil or stupid act that is suggested.