Jeff Bezos' 2045 timeline for sending 'millions of people' into space
Jeff Bezos has revealed that he believes millions of people could be living in space within the next two decades, after the billionaire spoke out about an ambitious vision for the future of humanity beyond Earth.
According to a report by Fortune, the Amazon boss appeared at Italian Tech Week last year where he stated: “I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now.”
This comes after public concerns have been raised over what the future for humanity might look like if artificial intelligence continues to develop at its rapid rate.
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However, Bezos does not appear to share those fears and instead, he thinks that robots will cut down on human workload so much that by 2045, ‘there will be millions of people living in space’.
The billionaire continued: “They’ll mostly be living there because they want to, we don’t need people to live in space.
“If you need to do some work on the surface of the Moon or anywhere else, we will be able to send robots to do that work, and that will be much more cost-effective than sending humans.”
Jeff Bezos says AI will create new jobs for humans
Bezos still appeared to be optimistic about AI during an appearance this year at tech expo VivaTech Paris, where he said: “I know there’s a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on. I totally disagree with this point of view and I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.”
The mogul believes that the tech could make people more productive, enabling them to focus more on other tasks, and create roles that don’t even exist yet.
But Bezos is not the only tech boss to share his predictions for the future as SpaceX founder Elon Musk has repeatedly promoted the idea of making humanity a multiplanetary species, with Mars being at the center of his long-term ambitions.
In 2024, Musk took to his own social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to claim that initial steps towards putting humans on Mars would begin in ‘two years’, with the uncrewed flight of a spacecraft to the Red Planet to ‘test the reliability of landing intact on Mars’.
However, he has since pushed back his plans in favor of focussing on the construction of a permanent lunar base.