Jeff Bezos says artificial intelligence will elevate people at work rather than replace jobs, citing assistance in X-ray analysis and programming tasks during a CNBC interview

Unquestionably there are some companies that are shifting work as a result of AI, and that will impact some roles. But the majority of enterprises I talk to are using AI to do more in their organization.

As an example, by and large most companies outside of tech are realizing they now have the opportunity to do far more software development and technical work that they wouldn’t have been able to prioritize before.

It’s not that they couldn’t prioritize it because it wasn’t important. It’s because it would cost an ungodly sum of money to apply engineers to every problem you’d want in the business. Now, agents make it possible to finally do that work.

And because agents require (for as long as we can tell) some person in the loop somewhere to make decisions on what to implement, review the work, and incorporate it, that means that people are in the mix.

Yes, you may not be building a mobile app or game, but you’ll be automating life sciences drug discovery or bringing AI to an industrial manufacturing company. Endless amounts of work in all of these areas.

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