Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is looking toward the future with excitement, not fear. Speaking at Italian Tech Week 2025, Bezos said he believes humanity is moving toward what he calls a “civilizational abundance,” not a collapse. The billionaire expressed surprise at how many people are pessimistic about the rise of artificial intelligence. “I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” he said, adding that technology’s rapid progress gives us plenty of reasons to be hopeful.
Bezos went even further, predicting that by 2045, millions of people could be living in space. “In the next couple of decades, I believe there will be millions living in space. That’s how fast this will accelerate,” he said.
According to him, those future space dwellers will live there by choice — not necessity. “They’ll mostly be living there because they want to,” he explained. Bezos added that humans won’t need to perform heavy labor on the Moon or other planets — robots will take care of that. “Sending robots for work on the Moon will be far cheaper than sending humans,” he noted.
When it comes to AI fears, Bezos doesn’t see it as a threat to humanity. Instead, he believes innovation has always made civilization richer. “Civilizational abundance comes from our inventions,” he said. “When someone invented the plough thousands of years ago, it made everyone wealthier. These tools keep expanding our prosperity — and that pattern will continue.”
However, not all tech billionaires share Bezos’s space obsession. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has previously said the world should focus more on solving Earth’s problems first. “Space? We have a lot to do here on Earth,” Gates remarked in an earlier interview.
Even so, Gates agrees AI could improve life by giving people more free time. “If you zoom out, the purpose of life is not just to do jobs,” he said.
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