AI will cause labour shortages, not job losses: Bezos

Half of Americans fear AI could cost them or someone in their household a job, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published this month. Jeff Bezos thinks they have it backwards.

Speaking at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on Wednesday, the Amazon founder predicted that artificial intelligence will produce a labour shortage, not replace the humans it is meant to assist.

"I totally disagree with this point of view," Bezos said of widespread redundancy fears. "AI is going to create a labour........

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