By Paresh Dave
Publication Date: 2025-11-26 19:04:00
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s supposedly “all-costs, fast-paced approach to AI development” could cause “significant harm to democracy, our jobs and the planet,” an internal advocacy group said Wednesday.
Four members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice tell WIRED they began asking workers to sign the letter last month. After achieving its initial goal, the group on Wednesday released the job titles of Amazon employees who signed and announced that more than 2,400 supporters from other organizations, including Google and Apple, had also joined.
Amazon supporters include senior engineers, senior product managers, marketing managers and warehouse employees from many areas of the company. A senior engineering manager with over 20 years of experience at Amazon says they signed on because they believe an artificial “race” to develop the best AI has given executives the opportunity to…
