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AI will create more jobs for humans, not replace them, Amazon founder Bezos confirms
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AI will lead to more need for workers rather than make people redundant, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted during an appearance at a tech conference in Paris.
Key facts
- This is in contradiction to some other tech and political figures
- including former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak, now an adviser to Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic, who recently said AI — It had a recent setback after an uncrewed New Glenn rocket exploded during a ground test at Cape Canaveral in Florida
- The UK's Trades Union Congress has warned that AI technology could repeat "the disaster of deindustrialisation" as shareholders get richer while jobs are "degraded or displaced
- The Moon, he said, offers a natural starting point for humanity's expansion beyond Earth because of its proximity and resources
Summary
Bezos pushed back against growing concerns that AI will replace large numbers of workers. Instead he argued that the tech will unlock new opportunities and increase demand for human labour. This is in contradiction to some other tech and political figures - including former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak, now an adviser to Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic, who recently said AI was having an impact on young people's job prospects. "I know there's a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on," Bezos said.