During a rare appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the aerospace company Blue Origin, shared his vision for human expansion beyond Earth. According to statements reported by the Financial Times, Bezos predicted that within twenty years, millions of people could be living in space, not out of necessity, but by choice.

In his conversation with John Elkann, heir to the influential Agnelli family, the tech magnate explained that much of the work in these orbital environments would be handled by automated systems. This would allow humans to inhabit space stations alongside floating artificial intelligence data centers.

This projection draws a clear parallel with the ambitions of his rival Elon Musk, who has long announced plans to establish settlements on Mars, with the goal of reaching a million colonists by the middle of the century. Faced with these prospects, the question arises as to whether this is a visionary race between two of the most powerful minds in the industry, or projections that are disconnected from the everyday reality of most people.

Bezos also addressed the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, describing it as a “positive” bubble, given its industrial nature rather than a purely financial one. “It is the best time to be excited about what is to come,” he stated, although it is likely that not everyone in the audience shared the same level of optimism.

By: Nestor Castillo, ForAllTechNews Director