Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says young people can’t run away from AI or ‘wish it away’—but they shouldn’t let it do this one thing
Source: Fortune ·
With two Gen Z children of his own, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI can help young people get ahead—but human judgment and ingenuity remain essential.
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AI’s impact on young people isn’t just a concern for Amazon CEO Andy Jassy as he leads the $2.6 trillion tech giant. With two Gen Z children—ages 25 and 22—who are navigating the same AI revolution reshaping education and the workplace, it’s personal, too. Jassy’s advice to young people, including his own children, isn’t to shy away from AI. But the 58-year-old also cautioned against letting the technology replace the critical thinking and judgment that have long been essential to success. “The advice I would give somebody young and I gave my kids was you can’t run away from it and you can’t wish it away,” Jassy said on The a16z Show last week. “It’s going to be incredibly impactful in your life in every experience that you try and use in your work, and it will allow you to invent in ways that just weren’t possible for us before.” Jassy, who took over as Amazon CEO from Jeff Bezos in 2021, earned a salary of $365,000 last year and has led the company to become No. 1 on the Fortune…