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Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology ‌will help humanity, speaking about projects including his space venture Blue Origin and his new AI startup Prometheus [File]
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Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour ⁠shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on Wednesday.

Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology ‌will help humanity, speaking about projects including his space venture Blue Origin and his new AI startup Prometheus, which is aimed at speeding up physical ‌manufacturing.

“I know there’s a lot of concern that many people have, including many ‌smart ⁠people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on,” ⁠Bezos said. “I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.”

The comments come when global companies cut thousands of jobs after investing heavily in ​AI, with many, primarily tech firms, pointing ‌to higher efficiencies from the technology’s rapid adoption.

U.S.-based employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May with AI linked to 40% of the layoffs, according to a report from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.

Half of Americans fear the rise of ‌AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, ​a Reuters/Ipsos poll found this month.

From Gen Z entering the job market to unions at South Korean carmakers and Hollywood scriptwriters, there has been ⁠a widespread pushback against AI use.

Bezos, the world’s fourth-richest person with a net worth around $250 billion, argued that people have “endless” things to do, and are currently limited by barriers that ‌he said AI would lower.

Amazon, too, has trimmed some 30,000 corporate roles since late last year, partly due to AI efficiency gains. Its CEO Andy Jassy had previously said increasing automation through AI tools would result in corporate job losses.

One goal of space exploration is to move polluting industries off Earth, said Bezos, whose Blue Origin aims to compete with trillionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX in rockets.

“If space travel gets reliable enough ‌and inexpensive enough, and we can get materials from asteroids and near-Earth objects and the moon, then ​this garden planet can be returned to its pre-Industrial Revolution state,” Bezos said.

Appearing together with Bezos was Blue Origin CEO David Limp, who said ⁠reconstruction of the firm’s launch pad for New Glenn rockets has begun in Florida following ⁠a dramatic explosion in May.

Musk has also put forward a lofty vision for space ahead of last week’s SpaceX IPO, including plans to create cities on ‌the moon and Mars. In an interview with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon last week, he talked about firing AI data centres into space and having vacations on the ​moon.

Published – June 18, 2026 09:07 am IST



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“You have to see it with your eyes”, said Gopi Thotakura after his space trip.

New Delhi:

Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin resumed its space flight today, after a two-year hiatus. A group of six adventurers completed an 11-minute journey to space after liftoff from Texas.

Mission NS-25 is the seventh crewed mission for Blue Origin, the space company founded and owned by Jeff Bezos.

30-year-old Gopi Thotakura, a pilot from Andhra Pradesh, was also part of the six-man crew. Preserve Life Corp, a medical institution close to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that focuses mostly on holistic health methods, was co-founded by Gopi Thotakura.

He has become the first Indian to travel into space as a tourist on Blue Origin’s return flight.

“It was amazing… you have to see it with your eyes”, said Gopi Thotakura after his space trip.

“I can’t describe how it is to look into space… everybody should go to the space. It was good to see Earth from the other side,” he added.

“Gopi Thotakura is a lifelong pilot and aviator who learned how to fly before he could drive. He flies jets commercially, in addition to piloting bush, aerobatic, and seaplanes. He’s also the co-founder of Preserve Life Corp, a global center for holistic wellness and applied health”, said Blue Origin about the Indian crew member on social media platform X.

The other crew members included Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schallera, and Ed Dwight.

90-year-old Dwight surpassed Star Trek star William Shatner, who was nearly two months younger, to become the oldest person to travel into space.

Ed Dwight is the first American Black man to be trained as an astronaut. Dwight was unable to achieve his goal of being the first black astronaut in space in 1961.

“We just completed our seventh human spaceflight and the 25th flight for the New Shepard program. Our #NS25 astronaut crew included: Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Ed Dwight, Ken Hess, Carol Schaller, and Gopi Thotakura. Thank you, astronauts”, said Blue Origin on X after the space flight.

“I was the first guy in the world to be famous for not doing something. Needless to say, I’m overwhelmed”, said Dwight before the liftoff.

Dwight was a skilled test pilot when President John F. Kennedy reassigned him to a highly competitive Air Force program, which was considered a path to the astronaut corps. But in the end, he was not chosen.

“This is a life-changing experience, everybody needs to do this,” said Dwight after the 11-minute space flight.

“I thought I didn’t really need this in my life,” reflecting on his omission from the astronaut corps, which was his first experience with failure as a young man. “But I lied”, he added.

With inputs from IANS, AFP





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