- Jeff Bezos says AI can bring ‘multiple golden ages’
- “I think these people are just wrong,” Amazon founder says of AI opponents
- His new company Prometheus raises $12 billion in new funding to try to build an “artificial general engineer”
Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos has once again sought to downplay the effects AI could have on the global job market, insisting the technology could instead bring “multiple golden ages.”
“Anyone who jumps to the conclusion that jobs are all going to disappear…I think those people are just wrong,” Bezos, the world’s fourth-richest person, said at the news conference. Financial Times.
“We are in the middle of several golden ages right now, certainly with AI,” he added. “But I think that’s also true for space and other areas like biotechnology…I think you’re going to see a whole bunch of incredible miracles happening here over the next decade.”
It’s all to do with AI
Bezos was speaking at an event for his new company, Promotheus, which seeks to use AI to revolutionize manufacturing and engineering, and recently raised $12 billion at a valuation of $41 billion.
Bezos himself was a major contributor to the new funds, with companies like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock also investing.
“Every single thing I’m working on today has something to do with AI,” Bezos told the FTnoting that its spaceship company Blue Origin, “is a perfect example of a company that would greatly benefit” from Prometheus’ tools.
The company seeks to build what it calls an “artificial general engineer”: services and software that can automate the design and manufacturing of complex physical systems. She says everything from jet engines to new drugs is covered by this potential and could therefore have a major impact on engineering jobs.
And despite widespread concerns about the impact AI is already having on human jobs, Bezos said he believes the technology will actually create a labor shortage, which will then lead to the creation of a host of new jobs.
“At its core, all civilizational wealth is based on invention. Six thousand years ago, someone invented the plow and we all got richer,” Bezos said.
This is not the first time Bezos has sought to highlight the importance of AI and convince us of its transformational impact.
In May 2025, he declared CNBC Opponents of AI “are dead wrong,” noting that “what’s really going to happen is (AI) is going to elevate all these people.” »
Bezos also predicted that AI would help boost productivity, and could even lead to deflation as the cost of goods and services falls – but that this could only happen if “we let this technology work and don’t cripple it too soon with regulation.”
He also dismissed the idea that AI coding tools could pose a threat to software engineers, saying the technology could actually help them be more productive by spotting and fixing problems.
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