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Elon Musk has weighed in on reports Amazon is addressing recent outages, including one related to AI-assisted coding.<\/p>\n
The e-commerce giant held a mandatory meeting on Tuesday for a \u201cdeep dive\u201d into multiple outages, including some as a result of the use of AI coding features, the Financial Times reported, citing internal briefs and emails. According to the outlet, Amazon said there was a \u201ctrend of incidents\u201d in the past few months with a \u201chigh blast radius\u201d and relating to \u201cGen-AI assisted changes,\u201d as well as other variables.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Amazon\u2019s website and shopping app were down for some users, with more than 22,000 users reporting an issue, according to outage tracker Downdetector. Customers were unable to check out, view prices for goods, or access their account information. At the time, Amazon said the outage was a result of \u201ca software code deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report of the meeting drew the attention of tech experts, including Musk, who made his comments public when he responded to a post from Lukasz Olejnik, a cybersecurity consultant and visiting senior research fellow at Department of War Studies, King\u2019s College London.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems,\u201d Olejnik wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cProceed with caution,\u201d Musk replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dave Treadwell, Amazon\u2019s senior vice president of e-commerce services, reportedly wrote in an email that the team\u2019s weekly \u201cThis Week in Stores Tech\u201d (TWiST) meeting would in part be used to implement additional guardrails on how AI is used by engineers, including requiring more senior engineers to sign off of AI-assisted changes made by junior and mid-level engineers.<\/p>\n
\u201cFolks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,\u201d Treadwell wrote in an internal email, the FT reported.<\/p>\n
An Amazon spokesperson told Fortune that the TWiST meeting is a regular weekly operations meeting with a group of retail technology teams and leaders to review operational performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs part of normal business, the meeting will include a review of the availability of our website and app as we focus on continual improvement,\u201d the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The company confirmed Amazon Web Services (AWS) was not involved in the incidents. Amazon said only one incident discussed was related to AI, but none involved AI-written code. Junior and mid-level engineers are also not required to have senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes, according to the company.<\/p>\n
The risks of rapid AI deployment<\/p>\n
The outages and subsequent meeting has raised concerns from cybersecurity experts about risks associated with the rapid rollout of AI tools. Features like Amazon\u2019s AI assistant Q can speed up the coding process, producing more code faster, but it may come at the risk of disrupting systems for how that code is written, checked, and deployed, making platforms more susceptible to outages, Olejnik told Fortune.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not making an argument against deployment of AI,\u201d he said. \u201cThere isn\u2019t any. It can\u2019t be stopped. Everybody is going to deploy AI. It\u2019s an argument against speed for its own sake or using AI for the sake of using AI.\u201d<\/p>\n
Late last year, Amazon began the process of laying off thousands of workers, citing desires to become more efficient and align the company culturally. Those layoffs have continued into this year, with the company reducing staff by a further 16,000 in January. Meanwhile, Amazon has continued pouring money into AI, projecting $200 billion in capex in 2026, an increase from $131 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n
Musk, for his part, has previously said AI will bypass coding completely by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n
Olejnik warned the transition from human-centered coding to AI-run systems too quickly could result in missing safety checks resulting in prolonged downtime or data loss that could result in \u201cblowing up\u201d a business due to irresponsible AI deployment.<\/p>\n
When asked, he said he saw eye-to-eye with Musk regarding the level of attention AI deployment in tech should require.<\/p>\n
\u201cI agree with him,\u201d Olejnik said. \u201cAI brings a lot of opportunities, but there\u2019s a middle ground between going to obsolescence due to not using AI, and blowing up businesses due to ill-judged deployments.\u201d<\/p>\n
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