Bezos: AI will result in labor shortages instead of replacing humans

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday said he thinks artificial intelligence will create a shortage of labor rather than replacing human labor.

Bezos and Blue Origin CEO David Limp were both in attendance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris, where former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino asked the pair about implementing Bezos’s new AI startup Prometheus with Blue Origin’s engineering. The Amazon founder said he disagrees with many people, “including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on.”

“I totally disagree with this point of view, and I think, ​in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage because it’s going to make it possible for people to identify more problems,” Bezos continued. “We have an endless set of things to invent, and … today, we are limited not by our imaginations, but by what........

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