Jeff Bezos shuts down AI-induced job loss talk, predicts labor shortage instead

Jeff Bezos on CNBC

"I think that there’s going to be a labor shortage as a result.

Many smart people are saying, oh my God, there are going to be no more radiologists because the AI can read X-rays better than the radiologist can. And there are going to be no more software engineers because the AI can program better than the software engineer can.

These people are wrong. What’s really going to happen is that it’s going to elevate all of these people.

It’s like, let’s say you’re a software engineer. You’ve been digging out the basement of your house with a shovel, and somebody’s about to hand you a bulldozer. You should be so happy if you’re digging the basement to your house and somebody says, “Hey, how about this?

We’re going to have so much productivity in our economy.”

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