For months, fearmongers have warned of AI’s “doomsday,” how it could eventually render whole swaths of the labor force unemployed and leave the rest managing AI employees. But for Jeff Bezos, those fears are overblown, and instead, AI will bring even more jobs than there are people to fill them.
Speaking Wednesday at VivaTech, the annual technology conference held in Paris, the Amazon founder and world’s fourth-richest person delivered a bullish vision of artificial intelligence’s impact on the workforce—and it’s one that he has been building toward for weeks.