# Jeff Bezos predicts millions will live in space by 2045 as robots handle lunar work > Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicts that millions of people will live in space by 2045, with robots handling labor on the moon and other planets. - Canonical URL: https://coreiten.com/en/article/jeff-bezos-space-prediction-millions-to-live-off-earth-by-2045 - Language: en - Section: Twitter - X - Author: Sami - Published: 2026-10-17T20:02:41+03:00 - Modified: 2026-10-17T20:02:41+03:00 - Publisher: CoreITen (https://coreiten.com) - Keywords: Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Blue Origin, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Dylan Taylor, Bill Gates ## Summary At Italian Tech Week 2025, Jeff Bezos predicted millions will live in space by 2045 as robots handle heavy off-planet labor. - Jeff Bezos compared modern technological advancements to the invention of the plough 10,000 years ago during his Italian Tech Week 2025 remarks. - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects college graduates to work in new, well-paid space jobs within 10 years. - Elon Musk believes humans will reach Mars by 2028, with SpaceX launching unmanned rockets next year. - Voyager Technologies founder and CEO Dylan Taylor expects humans to live and work on a moon base by the early 2030s. - Bill Gates offered a contrasting view, suggesting billionaires should prioritize Earth and questioning whether AI will help or doom humanity. **Why it matters:** The contrast between space expansionists like Bezos and Earth-focused leaders like Gates highlights a major ideological divide among tech billionaires. --- While some tech leaders warn that artificial intelligence could end civilization, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos remains highly optimistic about the future. Speaking at [Italian Tech Week 2025](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3Rq6ZLliM), Bezos predicted that by 2045, millions of people will be living in space, while robots will take over the burden of commuting and physical labor. “I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” Bezos said, rejecting the pessimistic rhetoric that has followed the launch of ChatGPT. He argued that technological tools will continue a pattern of increasing civilizational abundance, comparing modern advancements to the invention of the plough 10,000 years ago. ### Robots to handle off-planet labor In Bezos's vision, humanity's expansion into space will accelerate rapidly over the next couple of decades. However, he noted that this migration will be driven by desire rather than necessity. “They’ll mostly be living there because they want to,” he said. “We don’t *need* people to live in space.” Instead of humans performing difficult tasks on other planets, Bezos expects machines to take over. “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,” he explained. ### Tech leaders align on space timelines Other prominent technology executives share Bezos's expectation of a near-term space economy. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts that within 10 years, college graduates will be working in “some completely new, exciting, super well-paid” jobs in space. Altman noted that he is jealous of younger generations, as his own cohort's early-career jobs will look “boring” and “old” by comparison. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and the $1.95 trillion space exploration company SpaceX, believes humans will reach Mars as soon as 2028, with unmanned SpaceX rockets scheduled to launch next year. Dylan Taylor, founder and CEO of Voyager Technologies, also expects rapid progress. Taylor, who became a billionaire at 53 after Voyager went public on the NYSE last year at a $3.8 billion valuation, told Fortune that humans will definitely be living and working in space by the early 2030s. Voyager, which holds multiple NASA contracts, is currently building a replacement for the International Space Station. “We’ll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” Taylor said. “You’ll be able to look up at the moon and see lights on the moon.” Taylor's background includes founding Space for Humanity in 2017, before founding Voyager two years later. He also invested early in Relativity Space alongside Mark Cuban, and acted as an angel investor in Space Adventures. ### Bill Gates focuses on Earth and AI Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates offers a contrasting view on where billionaires should direct their resources. In a previous interview with comedian James Corden, Gates suggested prioritizing our current planet, saying, “Space? We have a lot to do here on Earth.” Gates remains uncertain about the ultimate impact of technology, noting that if he could speak to a time traveler, he would ask whether AI helped or doomed humanity. However, he does see an optimistic scenario where AI handles hard work, potentially making a two-day workweek the norm. “If you zoom out, the purpose of life is not just to do jobs,” Gates said. ## Sources - [fortune.com](https://fortune.com/article/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-says-millions-of-people-will-be-living-in-space-by-2045-and-robots-will-commute-on-our-behalf-to-the-moon/) ## Related topics - [Amazon](https://coreiten.com/en/topic/amazon) - [Sam Altman](https://coreiten.com/en/topic/sam-altman) - [Elon Musk](https://coreiten.com/en/topic/elon-musk)