Matt Garman (맷 가먼), chief executive of Amazon Web Services (AWS), said the spread of artificial intelligence will change every company and job. He said people entering the labour market must keep learning new skills and adapting.

TechRadar reported on April 8 that Garman said at the Human[X] conference in San Francisco that AI will change every company, every job, every way people work and every product interaction. He said the scale of the change will be very large.

He also did not back down on the debate over AI overheating. He said he is often asked such questions, but signalled that it is not the stage to doubt AI’s impact itself.

He drew a line by saying that strong enthusiasm for AI investment does not mean every company survives. Referring to the past internet bubble, Garman said the internet did not disappear. He said some AI startups valued at billions of dollars will clearly fail, while at the same time some companies will grow into large firms in 10 years. He applied the idea that each investment cycle produces winners and losers to the AI market as well.

He also presented figures for changes inside Amazon. Garman said software developers are seeing about 4.5 times higher efficiency by using AI. He said people will not simply give up such efficiency and added there is room for further improvement. He pointed to companies viewing AI adoption not as a simple experiment but as a way to improve productivity.

Garman singled out flexibility as the most important capability for people entering the labour market. He said perhaps the best skill is learning how to learn and that people should not assume what they learn now will still work as it is over the next 40 years. He said it has become more important to speed up learning in line with change than to stick with a single skill for a long time.

Garman also said AI is shaking up competition in the existing software market. He said when technology shifts, the SaaS and software product markets, worth trillions of dollars, re-enter a competitive landscape. He said such changes create major disruption for existing leaders but also a big opportunity for new players.

The remarks reflect AWS’s view that AI is moving beyond being a simple work-assistance tool and entering a stage of changing corporate operations, software markets and the structure of labour demand. By citing both productivity gains and the possibility of market reshaping, it suggests that adoption speed and execution are emerging as key tasks for companies, while continued reskilling is becoming a core challenge for the labour market.