“I know there’s a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant,” Bezos said in conversation with Blue Origin CEO David Limp. “I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.”
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. Unleash those constraints, he argued, and the demand for human effort will only increase.
“If space travel gets reliable enough and inexpensive enough, and we can get materials from asteroids and near-earth objects and the moon, then this garden planet can be returned to its pre–Industrial Revolution state,” Bezos said.
