Jeff Bezos has a message for anyone worried about robots stealing their job: you’ve got it backwards.
Speaking at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on June 17, the Amazon founder and co-CEO of AI startup Prometheus argued that artificial intelligence will create a shortage of labor, not a surplus of unemployed humans.
The case for fewer workers, not fewer jobs
Bezos was responding to a question from former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino about integrating Prometheus technology with Blue Origin’s engineering operations. His answer pivoted to what he sees as a fundamental misunderstanding about AI’s economic impact.
“I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.”
