- Jeff Bezos says artificial intelligence could usher in “multiple golden ages.”
- “I think these people are just wrong,” says Amazon’s founder on AI naysayers
- His new company Prometheus raises $12 billion in new funding in its bid to build an “artificial general engineer”
Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos has again sought to play down the effects of artificial intelligence on the global labor market, insisting the technology could instead bring “more golden ages”.
“The people who jump to the conclusion that all jobs are going to disappear… I think those people are wrong,” said Bezos, the world’s fourth-richest person. Financial Times.
“We’re in the middle of several golden ages right now, certainly with AI,” he added, “But I think that also applies to space, and other areas like biotechnology… I think you’re going to see a whole lot of incredible miracles unfold here in the next decade.”
Everything has to do with AI
Bezos was speaking at an event for his new company, Promotheus, which looks to use artificial intelligence to revolutionize manufacturing and engineering, and recently raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation.
Bezos himself was a major contributor to the new funds, in which the likes of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock also invested.
“All the things I’m working on today have something to do with AI,” Bezos said FTand notes that his Blue Origin spacecraft company “is a perfect example of a business that would greatly benefit” from Prometheus’ tools.
The company seeks to build what it calls an “artificial general engineer” — services and software that would be able to automate the design and manufacture of complex physical systems. It sees everything from jet engines to new medicines as covered in potential and could therefore have a big 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.
“Basically, all civilizational wealth is driven by invention. Six thousand years ago, someone invented the plow and we all got richer,” Bezos said.
This is not the first time Bezos has tried to play up the importance of AI and instead convince us of its transformational impact.
In May 2025, he told CNBC that naysayers about AI “are completely wrong,” noting that “What’s really going to happen is (AI) is going to elevate all these people.”
Bezos also predicted that AI will help increase productivity and could even lead to deflation as the price of goods and services falls — but that this could only happen if “we let this technology play out and don’t stifle it with regulation too soon.”
He also dismissed the idea that AI coding tools could be a threat to software engineers, saying the technology could actually help them be more productive by spotting problems and solving problems.
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