Jeff Bezos Thinks Every Other AI CEO Is Wrong About Jobs.

Bezos said this Wednesday morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box, sitting across from Andrew Ross Sorkin inside Blue Origin’s rocket factory in Merritt Island, Florida.

He’s one of the only people running a frontier AI company saying this. In November 2025 he launched Project Prometheus, a secretive startup he co-runs with former Google X executive Vik Bajaj. It launched with $6.2 billion in funding and has since been valued at roughly $38 billion. Its stated mission is building an “artificial general engineer” that accelerates how humans invent, design, and manufacture physical things. When Sorkin called it “AI robotics” in the interview, Bezos corrected him.

Bezos picked radiologists on purpose. Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of modern AI, has spent the last decade telling medical schools to stop training radiologists because the machines were going to make them obsolete.

He’s arguing against the loudest voices in his own industry. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has warned AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment toward 20 percent. Sam Altman talks openly about billion-dollar companies staffed by one person. Elon Musk says robots will do all the work. Demis Hassabis at DeepMind puts the timeline at under a decade.

Bezos thinks they’re all wrong. He believes AI will be deflationary, that the economy will grow faster than workers can supply it, that labor shortages will be the actual problem, and that two-earner households will be able to live on one income again. He thinks humans never run out of problems to solve, so the work just moves up a level.