Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos predicted that artificial intelligence would create labor shortages, defying predictions that the technology could lead to mass unemployment.

“I know there’s a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is ⁠going to make humans redundant and so on,” Bezos said Wednesday at an appearance at the VivaTech conference in Paris. “I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.”