‘AI is going to create labor shortages’: Jeff Bezos turns AI narrative on its head, says ‘I know there’s a lot of concern that a lot of people have’

• Jeff Bezos says AI is a force for good, rather than a threat
• Technology will expand the human labor market and create more demand
• Bezos’ comments run counter to the narrative of other prominent voices in AI

AI won’t shrink the labor market, but will expand it, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has declared, in his latest blast against technology arbiters.

“I know there’s a lot of concern that a lot of people have, including a lot of smart people, that AI will make humans redundant and so on,” Bezos said at the VivaTech conference in Paris.