Jeff Bezos told Fox News that rapid advances in artificial intelligence could boost productivity by double digits and make a three day workweek feasible for many workers.
Bezos said higher efficiency might let some people support a family on three days of work and could restore single income viability where two paychecks are now common.
He argued this shift could produce labour shortages rather than mass unemployment, with employers struggling to hire as workers opt for fewer hours.
Bezos pushed back on prominent warnings about AI driven job loss, saying "a lot of smart people are prognosticating" and adding that he disagreed with that outlook.
He defended Amazon's recent corporate reductions of roughly 30,000 positions as the result of over-hiring during the pandemic, not primarily automation.
Bezos also discussed his role at AI startup Prometheus, which he co‑leads, and described the firm’s aim to create an "artificial general engineer" to turn concepts into hardware and manufacturing solutions.
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The comments set Bezos apart from some leading AI figures who warn about displacement, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI leader Sam Altman.
Reporting and analysts say the key question is who captures productivity gains, whether companies return savings to workers or keep them for shareholders and investors.
Bezos acknowledged investor anxiety about an AI investment bubble and said it is "very hard to know" whether the market is frothy, while insisting technological advances outlive speculative losses.
He also touched on political and broader themes, supporting a proposal to rebrand artificial intelligence as "Super Intelligence" and rejecting attacks that equate success with villainy.
Turning to his space venture, Blue Origin, Bezos argued the United States must maintain its edge and described lunar infrastructure as groundwork for longer term off‑planet industrial projects and data centres.
