
Robots will replace human labor, to some extent and over time, but people shouldn’t be too worried, according to a long-time Amazon executive with a new AI supply chain start-up.
“Robotics will drive a ton in labor savings over time,” Dave Clark, the former CEO of Amazon’s consumer business and now founder of the AI supply-chain start-up auger, said Monday during Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco. “Unfortunately, we've made productivity sort of a dirty word. But we keep finding better ways to engage people’s brains."