Bezos says 'millions of people' will be living in space by 2045 - and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon

[dalton99a]

https://fortune.com/2025/10/15/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-says-millions-of-people-will-be-living-in-space-by-2045-we-will-have-robots-commuting-to-the-moon/

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
By Orianna Rosa Royle
October 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM EDT

No one enjoys the dreaded commute to work, and by 2045, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicts we’ll have robots to do that for us. After all, in his vision we’ll be venturing to other planets for our 9-to-5's.

Billionaires and tech CEOs have shared two distinct views on humanity’s future when it comes to AI: Some think it’ll wipe out all jobs and spell the end of civilization as we know it, while others hope it could lead to a utopian world—and Jeff Bezos is firmly in the latter category

“I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said on stage at Italian Tech Week 2025, adding that there’s much to look forward to as technology advances.

“In the next kind of couple of decades, I believe there will be millions of people living in space,” he said. “That’s how fast this is going to accelerate.”

“They’ll mostly be living there because they want to,” he added. “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.”

It’s not just Jeff Bezos who predicts that you could be applying for jobs and a mortgage from another planet in the coming future, Sam Altman and Elon Musk have shared similar predictions too.

In just 10 years’ time, OpenAI’s CEO Altman says college graduates will be working “some completely new, exciting, super well-paid” job in space. The ChatGPT creator even said that he’s jealous of young people because his generation’s early-career jobs will look “boring” and “old” by comparison.

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and the richest person on the planet, has single-handedly been one of most influential leaders in pushing for 21st-century space accessibility. After all, he’s the cofounder and CEO of $400 billion SpaceX, which has worked hand in hand with NASA to advance space exploration. He thinks humans will be on Mars as soon as 2028, with unmanned SpaceX rockets commencing lift off next year.

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[Walleye]

1. Hey Bezos, don't be stupid. It's not the technology we're afraid of. It's the politics.

[Aviation Pro]

2. Dream on

You goofy, bald-headed, book-selling wad of fuck.

You and your plastic fantastic “wife” can go fuck yourselves.

[allegorical oracle]

36. Egad. With luck, the billionaire class will flock to take the maiden trip. Too bad that

djt likely won't be around to join them....

[lonely bird]

3. Won't happen

Not in his lifetime or the lifetime of anyone alive today.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. They should build a ballroom to house his mind, too.

Money sure goes to people's heads.

[spanone]

5. Bezos has lost his mind.

[Lovie777]

6. Nope..................

in the vast Universes, and I know some are looking at earth and understanding that the human race is basically violent, mean, evil will have second thought allowing us to reach them.

Just a thought.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. "Visionaries" Have Been Saying That For 50+ Years

And yet, here we are with nobody living in space except for a handful of astronauts.
In over 50 years!
He's nuts!

[Collimator]

16. Avery Brooks sums up that promise in this commericial.

I remember being told about the wonders of the coming 21st century when I was ten years old in 1967.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

46. Me too!

[FalloutShelter]

51. LOLOLOLOL

Perfect.

[Initech]

48. That's because the GOP has blocked every attempt at scientific research.

Because they are a bunch of psychopaths.

[ProfessorGAC]

49. Perhaps

While what you say is true, I don't think that's the primary reason we aren't living in space despite 50 years of such predictions.
A reason? Highly likely. The primary reason or reason of profound significance? I'm skeptical.

[hatrack]

8. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

Go roll around in a swimming pool full of $1,000 bills with your blowup doll wife, you clueless delusional asshole.

[orangecrush]

29. Beat me to it

[Skittles]

55. gawd that woman, WTF is that

what a fucking disgusting couple

like the Trumps, two people using each other

[Ritabert]

60. She has a need to have maximum boobage showing at all times

[Skittles]

61. she is gross

[Ritabert]

65. Agreed.

[ananda]

9. I'd bet money that that will never happen.

All that kind of talk does is make me think
how out of touch with reality those billionaires
are.

[snowybirdie]

10. And the Missus

will be on her 22nd boob job and facelift.

[leftstreet]

26. He travels with his own flotation device

[orangecrush]

30. ...

[Scrivener7]

11. Bezos is a damaged asshole with a hole inside him that no amount of money will fill.

[58Sunliner]

12. I hope he spends his own money.

I can't imagine a lot of people will want to live in anything in space that Musk or Bezos creates.

[struggle4progress]

13. Stay tuned for more exciting episodes of "Moronicus and Dementia"!

[eShirl]

14. How the f are millions of people supposed to get there? Is he giving out free rides?

Maybe he can send millions of eggs and sperm into space where AI robots can raise millions of space babies... ?

[JBTaurus83]

15. How long

Have we been hearing this shit for?

[flvegan]

17. Just another place to bombard us with ads. n/t

[Jacson6]

18. Who wants to live in a tin can in space?

Of course NASA scientists do want to live for a short time in a space vehicle. There is nothing to do in space except look out the window and play cards.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

45. Zero gravity sex?

[patphil]

19. By 2045 the world economy will have collapsed due to high unemployment cause by robots taking all the jobs.

We have a consumer based economy. To consume, you have to have money. To have money, you need to work and get compensation for your work. There ain't gonna be any charity for those who don't produce.
So, what's the endpoint of all this AI and robotics as far as humanity is concerned?
The economy will collapse, and hundreds of millions of unemployed people around the world will be looking for someone to blame and punish for their poverty, disease, and suffering.
There won't be any exciting new jobs in space, because it'd be much more cost effective to have robots do those jobs.

The ultra rich like Bezos think they'll be the ones calling all the shots and living that exciting new life in space, but the rest of the people will be looking for ways to take revenge for the loss of all they loved about life. This would be the only reason Bezos and his ilk would be in space...to be safe from the rest of the people.
It's looking a lot like the movie Elysium will actually be the future we have to look forward to.

[Johonny]

20. I turns out people dont function all that well

In space. The odds people would want to live long term in space, is very doubtful.

[dalton99a]

22. Bezos will probably start several new companies - one of them will be manufacturing and selling full-body lead suits

to take care of the space radiation problem

another company will be for a Green project - Soylent Green

[surfered]

21. We'll have to as our planet will become uninhabitable due to climate change

[ColoringFool]

57. He said "millions," though, not the billions...

Who currently populate Planet Earth.

IOW, Bezos sees the Cosmos as the new home for the 1%.

Or at least an idea upon which he can capitalizr.

[Polly Hennessey]

23. Well those two would fit. They already look like 👽👽👾🛸

[hlthe2b]

24. Because the oligarch elite plan to make earth unliveable with total ignoring climate change

[bluesbassman]

25. Here's the money shot:

“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.”

Amazon internal communications recently surfaced indicating Bezo intends to replace over 600,000 workers with robots. In his address to his fellow tech oligarchs he literally outlines how the true exploitation of space will be accomplished through robot efforts because that’s “more cost-effective than sending humans”.

Bottom line, tech bro oligarchs offer grand visions of how much advancing technology will benefit humanity, and in some ways it may, but their true motivation is and always will be the accumulation of wealth and power.

[dalton99a]

27. +1

[bluesbassman]

35. All those robot replaced workers can get jobs programming and repairing the robots, right?

So we become a service based economy serving robots. Just what I dreamed about growing up.

[Rebl2]

28. What a

load of b.s.

[TheFarseer]

31. I think they just dangle space to give some people hope

The real future, I fear, is for 99% of us to sit in a tiny miserable apartment and be absorbed in a fake virtual life while the 1% lives in obscene opulence. The only question is how long before they decide they don’t need the 99% anymore. I know, I’m just a ray of sunshine today 🌞

[The Madcap]

34. How long before the 99% use their mass

to overwhelm the 1% in violence? Not advocating it but wondering how long it will be.

[TheFarseer]

50. If they get AI drones and robot attack dogs

Like we are seeing in some places, that could be the end for all of us.

[taxi]

32. Newsflash - There won't be less crime on the moon.

It will be in the forms of financial, white collar, and domestic crimes. They will be begging to get back to hell on earth.

[The Madcap]

33. So twenty years from now

We are going to build permanent space habitats that we are then going to send millions of humans to. How many flights would that take? Let's imagine a Bezos rocket can carry ten people, not including the crew. That would require 100,000 flights just to get one million people there. To make this feasible (HA HA!), you would need to have ships that could transport 1,000 at a time, and that would still take 1,000 flights.

Maybe he thinks the first inhabitants are just going to crank out space babies to fill the quota. Remember, though, that the first space generation would still require 12-15 years to reach puberty, so getting that second generation born to pump up the numbers would be really close to his 20-year target. Of course, teens stuck in space would likely be even more depressed than they are here on earth, as they would have no real freedom and no way of escape. They would make for a pretty useless next generation of adults in an environment that is fraught with danger.

As a side note, what's with the velvet suit and the oddly revealing clothes on his wife? Utterly tasteless and hideous. If this is leadership in the U.S., we are finished and done. Just dig the graves so we can jump in.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

44. We wouldn't need "flights"

if science would get a move on and build some transporters!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

37. Not gonna happen. Not inour lifetimes, probably not ever.

I'm currently reading "A City On Mars" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. One of the most interesting things I've ever read.

As has already been pointed out, only a relative handful of people -- fewer than a thousand -- have ever lived in space. It cost millions of dollars just to send one person up at a time. Living conditions on the ISS are apparently truly awful. The place apparently smells just awful, and I've read that most newly arrived astronauts are very space sick for a week or so.

The other issue is that we have no idea if we can actually reproduce in zero gravity, or the micro gravity of the Moon or Mars. I'm surprised they've never tried to breed mice or gerbils in space, but no one ever has.

And yes, the promise of flying or self-driving cars has been made for a century now.

[Retrograde]

41. I also recommend the book

I think the problems it raises are ultimately solvable, but at the rate Donnie and his pals are destroying education in the US it's not going to be Americans who solve them. And by ultimately I mean several generations down the road, not in Bezos' natural lifetime.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

43. And hoverboards?

What about transporters?

How long must we wait?!

[kimbutgar]

38. Both him and his wife are brain damaged botox idiots.

Putting all those chemicals into your body affects one’s brain cells.

History will not be kind to him when he dies.

[milestogo]

39. He is truly delusional.

[Luciferous]

40. Let's start with Bezos, Musk, and Trump.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

42. Apparently

Jeff's got his sleazy looking robot.

Looks like true love!!

[Initech]

47. We can't even keep planes in the air!

How the fuck are we going to live in space?

[sakabatou]

52. I have a bridge to sell to Bezos

[DBoon]

53. Does he expect us to worship him as a god

for realizing these incredible miracles?

[Keepthesoulalive]

54. Please warn us before you show us that picture

There are some things money can’t buy , class and humility.

[ColoringFool]

56. He's nuts! N/T

[JoseBalow]

58. Oh, yes please! Let's jettison the rich fucks into space!

Adios, fuckos!

[Red Mountain]

59. High on his own supply

Blue Origin isn't exactly impressing anyone with their launch cadence.

[raccoon]

62. And the billionaire class could cut off the oxygen for the space dwellers if they became an inconvenience.

[DFW]

63. Sheeee-it, man, like my job's commuting ain't enough?

I live in the lower Rheinland, and have to commute several times per month to Belgium, Bavaria, France, Nederland, Spain and Switzerland (where I am now, but hope to be home by midnight), and here someone is saying that there will be residences requiring a trip of days’ worth of space travel to get there and back?

Tell you what, Jeff Bezos, YOU go live on the Moon or Mars. I’ll be cool with the occasional post card.

[MaeScott]

64. Elysium isn't just a movie....

It’s their plan, trash our big blue marble, make it polluted as hell…
and live somewhere nicer.

[miyazaki]

66. Inner space or outer space lol?

Bozos lives in the space between his wife's jugs.

[Maeve]

67. 'E's a loon, 'e is!

Fall asleep during a Star Trek marathon and had nice dreams?

[valleyrogue]

68. There is "space" all right, and it is between Bozos's ears. n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

69. "I don't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,"

Wow. Talk about out of touch with reality.