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The Diary of a CEOEx-Google Exec: What Happens Between Now And 2037 Will Shock You | Mo Gawdat
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- August 4, 2025
- Duration
- 2h 34m
- Channel
- The Diary of a CEO
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
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 ⏱ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:15 Where Is AI Heading? 05:02 What Will the Dystopia Look Like? 11:11 Our Freedom Will Be Restricted 19:17 Job Displacement Due to AI 28:13 The AI Monopoly and Self-Evolving Systems 35:10 Sam Altman's OpenAI Letter 39:35 Do AI Companies Have Society's Interest at Heart? 53:09 Will New Jobs Be Created? 01:01:28 What Do We Do in This New World? 01:03:13 Ads 01:04:17 Will We Prefer AI Over Humans in Certain Jobs? 01:08:11 From Augmented Intelligence to AI Replacement 01:17:34 A Society Where No One Works? 01:26:36 If Jobs No Longer Exist, What Will We Do? 01:36:35 Ads 01:38:38 The Abundance Utopia 01:40:50 AI Ruling the World 01:54:24 Everything Will Be Free 01:57:17 Do We Live in a Virtual Headset? 02:14:00 We Need Rules Around AI 02:25:03 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/DIARY Replit - http://replit.com with code STEVEN
SPEAKERS
Mo Gawdat
guestFormer Google/X executive and author of books on AI and happiness, including *Scary Smart*.
Steven Bartlett
hostEntrepreneur and host of *The Diary Of A CEO* podcast.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Mo Gawdat and Steven Bartlett, Ex-Google Exec: What Happens Between Now And 2037 Will Shock You | Mo Gawdat explores Mo Gawdat warns of AI-driven dystopia before abundant utopia arrives Gawdat predicts an unavoidable 12–15 year “short-term dystopia” driven by humans using AI to magnify existing greed, power grabs, and weak accountability rather than AI itself being inherently malicious.
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