1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. https://t.co/cyTpG6ZhYk

1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. https://t.co/cyTpG6ZhYk

With the recent attention to rising electricity costs and delayed climate goals, this is an inflection point! Tech workers have a rare opportunity to stand up and change the trajectory of the AI buildout. Please sign! https://t.co/rHPl6YnhnH

The choice is stark: which world do we want?

To put that acreage in context, that’s “six times larger than Yellowstone National Park and includes tracts in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Alabama” AND

Monday, Trump sent us back to the 1800's in search of AI dominance: he's gifting $625 million to decrepit coal plants, letting them delay adherence to water pollution rules for years, lowering royalties from 12.5 to 7%, & offering up 13 MILLION ACRES of federal land for mines.

11/ Help us bring the AI conversation back down to earth. Send this letter to anyone you know who works at Amazon. Ask them to read it and sign it. Amazon’s made it hard to have open conversations internally, so we need your help getting the word out. https://t.co/cyTpG6ZhYk

10/ We believe in building a better world — not in building bunkers to fall back to. We want the promised gains from AI to give everyone more freedom to play and rest, to spend time with family and friends, to be moved by nature, to create, to feel safe being who we are.

9/ We demand Amazon leadership commit to the following: 1) No AI with dirty energy. 2) No AI without employee voices. 3) No AI for violence, surveillance, or mass deportation. https://t.co/cyTpG6ZhYk

8/ All of this is daunting, but none of it is inevitable. A better future is still very much within reach, but it requires us to get real about the costs of AI and the guardrails we need.

7/ And third, Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people. https://t.co/Nznrom2Exb

6/ Second, Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us. https://t.co/yHmRvQlvin

5/ We’re the workers who develop, train, and use AI, so we have a responsibility to intervene. Here’s why we’re sounding the alarm: First, Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI. https://t.co/YCcFbbHFdD

4/ We believe that Amazon's all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth. https://t.co/oBagdL8qch

3/ As employees, we have serious concerns about this aggressive rollout during the global rise of authoritarianism & our most important years to reverse the climate crisis. https://t.co/zTy7mFgxDK

2/ In recent years, tech leaders have accelerated their race to build the most powerful AI first. “Sink or swim”, “AI is not going anywhere”, and “work with it or be replaced” have become mantras in workspaces at Amazon and beyond. https://t.co/IMMXEIAHjK

8/ This is why we’re asking our Amazon coworkers to sign an open letter with us. If enough of us sign and this letter enters public awareness, it will add a much-needed dose of reality to the larger AI conversation, and may force leadership to respond. https://t.co/tjnLQE7EIf

7/ If these collaborations continue, we will be ceding an unbelievable amount of power into the hands of an increasingly authoritarian government and a few companies willing to abandon any principles they claim to have in the race for AI dominance.

6/ Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, and has begun asserting more control over that publication; the other major AI players control mass information ecosystems like Instagram and X. https://t.co/her2WKPtyM

5/ Amazon is expanding the surveillance state in other ways, too. It’s making Ring AI-first and re-introducing a tool for police to request footage; it’s using AI to surveil and union-bust warehouse workers, and, of course, its own customers. https://t.co/Mo2q9EWmgK