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‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos sees more jobs being created in the new economy, not less
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For months, fearmongers have warned of AI’s “doomsday,” how it could eventually render whole swaths of the labor force unemployed and leave the rest managing AI employees.
Key facts
- Tech layoffs through May 2026 have already surpassed 115,000, approaching the total logged in all of 2025, with Meta, Amazon, and Snap among those citing AI as a driver of cuts
- McKinsey recently predicted there will be a 30% shortfall of magnetic rare earth minerals by 2035
- Goldman Sachs has estimated AI is eliminating roughly 16,000 U.S. jobs per month, with entry-level and Gen Z workers absorbing the heaviest impact
- Even the leaders of major AI companies, like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, has predicted AI could cause “unusually painful” disruption across white-collar work
Summary
Speaking Wednesday at VivaTech, the annual technology conference held in Paris, the Amazon founder and world’s fourth-richest person delivered a bullish vision of artificial intelligence’s impact on the workforce—and it’s one that he has been building toward for weeks. It wasn’t the first time he made that case. Humans have “endless” things they want to do, Bezos said at the conference, and are currently held back only by barriers that AI will lower. The remarks put him at odds with a significant share of Americans, including some of the most prominent voices in his own industry.