Jeff Bezos rejects fear that AI will take humans’ jobs
Jeff Bezos rejects fear that AI will take humans’ jobs
Publish Date: 2026-06-12 05:20:00
Source Domain: www.independent.co.uk
Controversial Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has rejected concerns that artificial intelligence will take human jobs.
Discussing his new A.I. business known as Prometheus, the billionaire even claimed that artificial intelligence could create a “labor shortage in the economy”.
Bezos, who is co-leading the business, told The Wall Street Journal that the firm plans to create an “artificial general engineer” that can design and manufacture complex physical products such as a jet engine.
According to him, the company’s goal is to “empower engineers and make an invention easier and faster, so smaller teams can do much bigger things on much shorter time cycles”.
Bezos dismissed concerns regarding the impact of A.I., claiming that pessimism about the technology among young people is “the opposite of reality.”
Jeff Bezos says that artificial intelligence could create a ‘labor shortage in the economy’ (AFP/Getty)
The billionaire said that the technology will mean that fewer people are needed in existing jobs, but that more opportunities will be created and productivity will increase.
Bezos went on to suggest that employment would even rise if A.I. makes it cheaper, easier and faster to invent things. He says that “even though you’re shrinking the number of people needed by 10x,” the technology will create “more than 10x” as many opportunities.
Bezos also claimed, “There’s going to be two-earner income households where one earner drops out of the labor pool, because there’s going to be so much productivity.”
However, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, more than half of those surveyed said that they fear that they or someone in their household could lose their job because of A.I.
Fifty-three percent of the 4,531 respondents held that concern, compared to 37 percent who did not.
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