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Don't use AI just for the sake of using AI.
That's what Amazon exec Dave Treadwell told employees after the company shuttered an internal leaderboard tracking which staff members use AI the most, the Financial Times reports:
TL;DR
- Amazon exec Dave Treadwell advised employees against using AI simply for the sake of it.
- The company has closed an internal leaderboard that tracked employee AI usage.
- The leaderboard encouraged employees to assign AI agents to perform needless tasks.
- This practice, termed 'toxenmaxxing', reportedly led to increased computing costs at Amazon.