AI will lead to labour shortages, Jeff Bezos says at VivaTech
17/06/2026 10:43
AI will lead to labour shortages, Jeff Bezos says at VivaTech AMSTERDAM, June 17 (Reuters) - Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon AMZN.O founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Wednesday.
Bezos was speaking about his new AI startup Prometheus, which is aimed at speeding up physical manufacturing, at the VivaTech conference in Paris.
(Reporting by Gianluca Lo Nostro, Toby Sterling and Louise Heavens)
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