Amazon consumer CEO Jeff Wilke says that he's okay with government scrutiny but that the company shouldn't be broken up

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As tech industry giants come under fire the government, the CEO of Amazon's online retail business shrugged off the potential fallout.

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Wilke's comments came at Amazon re:MARS, a new conference showing off the retailer's latest and greatest technology, including updates on its idea to deliver packages via drone.As the tech industry giants come under fire from governments worldwide, a top Amazon exec shrugged off the potential fallout of antitrust investigations.

The questions and comments came in the context of Amazon's first ever re:MARS conference, in which the company is giving the public a rare peek at the robots and artificial intelligence technologies the company employs to run its business. Brad Porter, vice president of robotics at Amazon also discussed how Amazon over 200,000 robots worldwide in its warehouse, next to its 300,000 warehouse employees, to sort billions of packages a year. These robots take items from the shelves and send them off to the trucks and planes that will deliver them to all over the world.

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