Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon

Billionaires and tech CEOs have shared two distinct views on humanity’s future when it comes to AI: Some think it’ll wipe out all jobs and spell the end of civilization as we know it, while others hope it could lead to a utopian world—and Jeff Bezos is firmly in the latter category.

“I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said on stage at Italian Tech Week 2025, adding there’s much to look forward to as technology advances. 

For one, no one enjoys the dreaded commute to work, and by 2045, Bezos predicts we’ll have robots to do that for us. After all, in his vision, we won’t just be commuting to work—we’ll be venturing to other planets.

“In the next kind of couple of decades, I believe there will be millions of people living in space,” he said. “That’s how fast this is going to accelerate.” 

“They’ll mostly be living there because they want to,” he added. “We don’t need people to live in space.” 

“If you need to do some work on the surface of the moon or anywhere else, we will be able to send robots to do that work, and that will be much more cost-effective than sending humans.”

And Bezos can’t wrap his head around the doom and gloom rhetoric that’s been going around since ChatGPT’s frenzied launch: “Civilizational abundance comes from our inventions,” he insisted. 

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