Amazon’s big robotics showcase highlighted the company’s vision for “AI at work,” but the event also revealed a widening gap between its public messaging and media coverage about automation’s impact on jobs.

According to a report Monday from The New York Times, Amazon is seeking to ramp up its robot army at the cost of human jobs.

The report claims that the e-commerce giant's automation team expects that the company can avoid hiring more than 1,60,000 people in the United States it would otherwise need by 2027.