Ex-Google Exec (Mo Gawdat) on AI: The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven… And Only These 5 Jobs Will Remain!

Mo Gowdat

Scary Smart was shockingly accurate.

Mo Gawdat

Scary Smart was shockingly accurate.

Mo Gowdat

Now I believe that we are going to hit a short-term dystopia.

Guest: Mo Gawdat

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Mo Gawdat sounded the alarm on AI, and now he’s back with an even bigger warning: AI will cause global collapse, destroy jobs, and launch us into a 15-year dystopia that will change everything. Mo Gawdat is back! Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X and one of the world’s leading voices on AI, happiness, and the future of humanity. In 2017, he launched ‘One Billion Happy’, a global campaign to teach 1 billion people how to become happier using science and emotional tools. He is also the bestselling author of books such as, ‘Scary Smart, Solve for Happy’. He explains: Why we need to start preparing today for AI How all jobs will be gone by 2037 Why we must replace world leaders with AI How AI will destroy capitalism The one belief system that could save humanity from dystopia 00:00 Intro 02:28 Where Is AI Heading? 05:14 What Will the Dystopia Look Like? 11:24 Our Freedom Will Be Restricted 19:29 Job Displacement Due to AI 28:25 The AI Monopoly and Self-Evolving Systems 35:23 Sam Altman's OpenAI Letter 39:47 Do AI Companies Have Society's Interest at Heart? 53:21 Will New Jobs Be Created? 01:01:41 What Do We Do in This New World? 01:03:25 Ads 01:04:30 Will We Prefer AI Over Humans in Certain Jobs? 01:08:23 From Augmented Intelligence to AI Replacement 01:17:46 A Society Where No One Works? 01:26:48 If Jobs No Longer Exist, What Will We Do? 01:36:47 Ads 01:38:50 The Abundance Utopia 01:41:02 AI Ruling the World 01:54:36 Everything Will Be Free 01:57:30 Do We Live in a Virtual Headset? 02:14:13 We Need Rules Around AI 02:25:15 I Follow the Fruit Salad Religion Follow Mo: Instagram - https://bit.ly/4l8WAHI X - https://bit.ly/4lSZf9F YouTube - https://bit.ly/4fhBzcL Website - https://bit.ly/3IWN1hI Substack - https://bit.ly/4oiw1Td Emma Love Matchmaking - https://bit.ly/4ogku75 You can purchase Mo’s book, ‘Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World’, here: https://amzn.to/4mkP1i2 The Diary Of A CEO: ⬜️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ⬜️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ⬜️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ⬜️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ⬜️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ⬜️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb

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“I know that you've started writing a new book called Alive, which is, I guess, a bit of a follow-on or an evolution of your thoughts as it relates to Scary Smart.”

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