Bernie Sanders Challenges Bezos, Amazon on AI’s Job Impacts
28th October 2025
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called on Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to account for what the Vermont independent said were hundreds of thousands of potential lost jobs due to automation.
Bezos doesn’t answer to you, Bernie, unless you’re a stockholder–and then, not directly. It’s his company, not yours.
“If Amazon succeeds on its massive automation plan, it will have a profound impact on blue-collar workers throughout America and will likely be used as a model by large corporations throughout America,” Sanders wrote in a letter to Bezos, which was exclusively reviewed by Reuters.
Yup. New technology is like that. Machine tools eliminated a lot of jobs for blue-collar workers. We survived and prospered.
Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats, was referring to a New York Times article published earlier this month that cited documents and interviews showing that Amazon executives believe 500,000 jobs could be cut over time by replacing warehouse workers with robots. Amazon employs 1.55 million people, the majority of whom are hourly workers.
That’s socialism for you, standing in the way of progress.