Amazon's Andy Jassy says AI will take some jobs but make others more 'interesting'

The adoption of artificial intelligence systems throughout the business sector will lead to "fewer people doing some of the jobs" that become automated, Amazon president and CEO Andy Jassy said in an interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer this week.

Jassy's understated comments about the future impacts of automation upon the job market were also optimistic: While he concedes that some people will be replaced by AI, the technology will simultaneously "make all of our jobs more interesting " and lead to new roles. 

"We're going to hire more people in AI, more people in robotics, and there will be other jobs…that we'll hire [for] over time, too," he told Cramer. 

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