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

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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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