Jeff Bezos said AI could make a three-day workweek possible. He told Fox News, "Some people will also decide, you know what, I can support my family by working three days a week." Bezos believes AI will boost productivity, allowing people to work less while still earning enough for their families.
As artificial intelligence researchers, engineers, and ethicists increasingly walk away and sound alarms, billionaire Jeff Bezos has emerged with a contrarian view, urging the public to stop fearing the technology.
Speaking to Fox News, the Amazon founder and Prometheus co-CEO argued that, rather than sparking widespread unemployment, rapid advances in AI could deliver double-digit economic productivity gains that fundamentally reduce how much humans need to work.
"Some people will also decide, you know what, I can support my family by working three days a week," Bezos told Baier.
The world's second-richest person—whose net worth is pegged by Forbes at approximately $378.6 billion—suggested that AI-driven efficiency could restore single-income viability for two-earner households, eliminating the need for workers to juggle multiple jobs just to stay afloat. Consequently, Bezos predicted that companies could soon grapple with labour shortages rather than job gluts, as workers actively opt for shorter hours and fewer shifts.
When challenged by Baier on Amazon’s own corporate downsizing—having eliminated roughly 30,000 corporate positions over the past year—Bezos defended the company's trajectory, calling it a "very special position" resulting from aggressive, rapid headcount expansion during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Beyond Amazon, Bezos has deepened his direct bets on machine intelligence through Prometheus, an AI enterprise he co-founded to develop what he terms an "artificial general engineer" designed to translate concepts into physical hardware and manufacturing solutions.
Asked about US President Donald Trump's suggestion to rebrand artificial intelligence from "AI" to "Super Intelligence" or "SI," Bezos favoured the pivot, noting that the term artificial carries connotations of being "fake" or "not very flattering."
Pushing back against broader political attacks on concentrated wealth in tech, the Amazon executive chairman remarked that "success is not villainy."
Turning to his space venture, Blue Origin, Bezos asserted that the United States must maintain its lead over China in the lunar race, expressing confidence that American astronauts will return to the Moon by 2028. Blue Origin, which is preparing to resume launches of its New Glenn rocket in December following an engine-test explosion in May, envisions lunar infrastructure as a precursor to Mars exploration and long-term space-based industrialisation, including off-planet data centres.