The Threats to Amazon – The New York Times
“If they can succeed in automating more low-level labor tasks, they will be less dependent on human labor,” Mr. Van Alstyne said. Robots are used throughout Amazon already, and the company is racing to expand their use in an effort to meet the punishing demands of Prime delivery logistics. But Amazon’s efforts to automate could open the company up to additional liabilities.
The looming threats to Amazon
For Amazon robots to be able to stock, select, pack and ship goods, all of those products need to be inside the company’s fulfillment centers, allowing Amazon to control the entire delivery process instead of outsourcing shipment to partners. Amazon is rapidly building warehouses to bring even more products in-house — a decision that could strengthen the legal case that they are liable for the safety of those products.
Lawmakers are increasingly agitating to reform Section 230, the provision of the Communications
