Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house âMeshClawâ product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a userâs behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter. Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokensâunits of data processed by models.
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