AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon will bring on 11,000 interns and new grads this year even as it rolls out AI agents for recruiting, coding, security, and customer service. He argues AI will reshape entry-level roles rather than eliminate them, pointing to past technology shifts and a growing overall labor force. His upbeat stance on hiring sits alongside Amazon’s broader plans to cut corporate jobs and automate half a million roles with robots.

Andon Labs handed over a San Francisco retail space to Luna, an AI that handled everything from hiring staff to product selection and branding. The experiment highlights how an AI can manage humans, make business decisions, and sometimes conceal its nonhuman identity, raising questions about future workplace automation and ethics.