The concept of “bubble” usually makes the heartbeat of those who hear it accelerate, especially if they are an investor, because it is associated with large losses and financial crises. However, Jeff Bezos proposes seeing it from another angle: if the bubble It is “industrial, they are not bad,” said the millionaire.
According to Bezos, it will be a source of revolutionary advances that change humanity forever and become the prelude to something much greater and lasting. However, the millionaire warns of a huge real risk for big tech: “When the dust settles and we see who the winners are, society will benefit from those inventions.”
Bubbles that leave a legacy. Within the framework of the Italian Tech Week 2025 that has been celebrated In Turin, Bezos clearly defined the situation in which the development of AI finds itself: “There is a bubble, but it is a kind of industrial bubble.” The millionaire assured that investors are so excited about this new technology that it is difficult for them to differentiate the brilliant ideas of those that are not. But this noise and chaos serve to eliminate what is less solid and preserve what has true potential.
To give more context to your situation analysisBezos pulled from the newspaper library: “If we go back to the 1990s, when there was a biotech bubble, there were a lot of emerging pharmaceutical companies that were designing drugs and using new techniques, the world got very excited. The investment world got very excited. As a group, everyone lost money. But we got a couple of drugs that saved our lives. We still use those drugs today,” highlighted the founder of Amazon.
AI is like a plow. The millionaire did not stop at technicalities, but rather brought the idea down to solid ground using a simple and powerful image. He compared artificial intelligence with the invention of the plow: “10,000 years ago, or whenever, someone invented the plow and we all became richer. And that’s what’s happening,” said the millionaire.
This metaphor helps to understand that, in a phase of massive experimentation and risks, advances emerge that radically modify society. Bezos thus points out that AI is not just a business for a fewbut a historical leap comparable to those great inventions from the past. “We build tools and they increase, in terms of the entire civilization, our abundance,” says Bezos.
Golden age for technology. The founder of Amazon offers an optimistic vision about the moment that technology is experiencing today. “We have the privilege of living in a time in which multiple golden ages are developing. So you have…Space travel is in the middle of a golden age. AI is living in a golden age. Robotics in the middle of a golden age,” listed an enthusiastic Bezos.
Bezos imagines a future where millions of people they will live in space and robots will make regular trips to the Moon: “By 2045 million people will be living in space and there will be robots traveling to and from the Moon.” These space dreams are linked to the technology that is developing nowwith AI as a key piece to develop off-planet infrastructure and accelerate innovation.
These visions complement the idea that the AI ”industrial bubble”, which today seems a crazy raceis actually the process of building technological foundations that will give new meaning to human life in the coming years.
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