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!

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Monday, 4 August 2025 - 2 hours 36 minutes

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  

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