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Meanwhile, major corporations are already taking steps to automate roles traditionally performed by humans. Amazon is on the verge of replacing 600,000 warehouse jobs with robots and aims to automate roughly 75% of its operations. Similarly, large companies such as Salesforce, Walmart, Paramount, UPS, YouTube, and Meta have announced layoffs reportedly driven by AI-driven automation, with nearly one million jobs cut nationwide this year.