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Jeff Bezos has some loft ideas for the future of humanity, and he's managed to settle on the same idea as Elon Musk that would dramatically change how (and where) we live in the next few decades.
It's easy enough to be optimistic about developments surrounding artificial intelligence when you're benefitting significantly from it, yet Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can't quite fathom how anyone on Earth couldn't be excited for the future.
Amid fears of mass redundancy and the immense pressure that increased AI development is putting on the environment, Bezos proclaimed during Italian Tech Week 2025 that "I don't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now."
He remains someone that is extremely excited for the future humanity, joining individuals like Elon Musk and Bill Gates in his enthusiasm for what AI and advanced technologies will bring to the planet, and he's proposed a dramatic change that could even settle humans in space for the very first time.
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As reported by Fortune, Bezos outlined that "in the next kind of couple of decades, I believe there will be millions of people living in space," adding "that's how fast this is going to accelerate."
It's certainly a compelling prospect for some, and perhaps a realistic one considering how much progress development of AI has achieved in just the last three years alone.
He added that people will "mostly be living there because they want to," and that "we don't need people to live in space," although with terrifying changes to the climate looming in the inevitable future, perhaps we might be forced to find a new home.
Bezos has even come up with a solution to the daily commute that plagues many workers, suggesting that "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," although there's no suggestion for where that will leave everyone that doesn't occupy a place on lists of the world's richest individuals.
This isn't the only space-related innovation that Bezos made during his talk either, as he proposed that AI data centers would soon find a home as solar-powered satellites, perhaps solving the issues that have currently cropped up amid mass expansion.
There's likely a number of hurdles that need to be surpassed before these dreams of living in space can be realized though, as it's still been over half a century since astronauts have been on the Moon, leaving little prospect of the average person going even further any time soon.
