- Jeff Bezos says AI can bring “multiple golden ages”
- ‘I think these people are just wrong,’ Amazon founder says of AI detractors
- His startup Prometheus raises $12 billion in new funding as it attempts to build an “artificial general engineer”
Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos has once again sought to downplay the effects AI could have on the global job market, insisting the technology can bring “multiple golden ages.”
“People who are coming to the conclusion that all jobs are going to disappear… I think they are just wrong,” Bezos, the world’s fourth-richest person, said at Financial times.
“We’re in the midst of multiple golden ages right now, certainly with AI,” he added, “but I think it also applies to space and other areas like biotechnology… I think we’re going to see a lot of incredible miracles unfold here in the next decade.”
It’s all about AI
Bezos spoke at an event about his new company, Promotheus, which seeks to use AI to revolutionize manufacturing and engineering, and recently raised $12 billion at a valuation of $41 billion.
Bezos himself was a major contributor to the new funds, and companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock also invested.
“Everything I work on today has something to do with AI,” Bezos told the FOOTnoting that his spacecraft company, Blue Origin, “is a perfect example of a company that would greatly benefit” from Prometheus tools.
The company is looking to build what it calls an “artificial general engineer”: services and software that would be able to automate the design and manufacturing of complex physical systems. He believes that everything from jet engines to new drugs is covered by the potential and could therefore have a major 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 large number of new jobs.
“At its core, all the wealth of civilization 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 highlight the importance of AI and instead convince us of its transformative impact.
In May 2025, he said CNBC AI’s detractors “are dead wrong” and point out that “what’s really going to happen is (AI) will elevate all these people.”
Bezos also predicted that AI will help increase productivity and could even lead to deflation as the cost of goods and services falls, but that this could only happen if “we let this technology develop and don’t cripple it with regulations too soon.”
He also rejected the idea that AI coding tools could be a threat to software engineers, stating that the technology could actually help them be more productive by detecting problems and solving them.
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