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! episode artwork

EPISODE · Aug 4, 2025 · 2H 34M

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!

from The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · host The Experience Plus

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 dystopia00:00 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 Sponsors: Linkedin Ads - https://www.linkedin.com/DIARYReplit - http://replit.com with code STEVENLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theexperienceplus.substack.com

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