Bezos rejects AI redundancy fears: AI will create a labor shortage, not unemployment
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-17
Jeff Bezos pushed back on the widespread concern that AI will make humans redundant, saying he "totally disagrees" with that view. In his framing, AI will actually produce a labor shortage, since humanity has "an endless set of things to invent" — another optimistic take on AI and jobs from a top tech figure.
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