Jassy says AI is great, but don’t let it do the thinking
Amazon's CEO warns Gen Z to use AI but not let it replace critical thinking.
The story
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy advises Gen Z to use AI but avoid letting it replace critical thinking, warning that AI-generated writing can be 'not quite right' because it lacks cohesion.
Source: fortune.com
Our reading
Jassy says AI can eliminate grunt work, but he’s worried about people using it for writing. It’s not that AI can’t write—it’s that it can’t quite write well enough. The problem isn’t the tech, it’s the people who think they can outsource their thinking to it.
It’s the same logic that lets a CEO tell employees to be creative while the company automates their jobs. The advice is always about the worker, never the system. Jassy’s kids, for example, aren’t developers, but they use AI to build apps. The real question is: who’s building the AI that builds the apps?
Jassy’s warning is less about AI and more about the kind of thinking that gets rewarded. If you can’t tell a good argument from a bad one, you’re not just losing to AI—you’re losing to the people who know how to use it without letting it do the thinking for them.
