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Fortune
Catherina Gioino

‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos sees more jobs being created in the new economy, not less

Jeff Bezos (Credit: Courtesy of VivaTech 2026)

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.

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