Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth - Ex-Google Exec: How to Position Yourself Now Before the Next AI Phase (2026–2027) | Mo Gawdat

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

Mo Gawdat spent 12 years at Google, wrote Scary Smart, and now predicts 12–15 years of disruption before things get better. In this episode, he breaks down the 7 forces already reshaping jobs and power, why 23–30% of new grad hiring has collapsed, and how he built an AI startup in 6 weeks instead of 4 years. Mo Gawdat is former Chief Business Officer at Google X and one of the few tech insiders saying out loud what most are only thinking.More from the Silicon Valley Girl: Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconValleyGirl⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X: ⁠https://x.com/siliconvalleymm⁠

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This is Mobe, former chief business officer at Google X, where he spent over a decade running business innovations. He says everyone now has a chance, but only if they understand what's actually coming. The skin of an entrepreneur in the past was the ability to foresee something in the future that no one else saw and to prepare for that. That's a game of chess is over. It's off the table. This has turned into squash.

I'm just basically saying, get prepared. How much time do we have to prepare? Within the next two to three years, you're going to see a massive shift in the jobs market. So you asked me, what should we do? Number one, learn the skills. Number two. Well, thank you so much for doing this.

Welcome to Silicon Valley Girl. Thank you. You said something that we're about to enter what you call 12 to 15 years of hell before heaven, possibly starting in 2027. So what's going to happen in 2007? I think it will peak in 2027. It already started for sure. I call it face RIPs, just as an acronym for people to remember.

Each of those letters is a word, but let me tell the story quickly in ways that people will understand. And there is the power and freedom dimension, so the P and the F. There is the R and the C, the reality and connection dimension. There is the I and the C, the innovation and connection and, sorry, an economics dimension, and then there is the A. So let me tell them very quickly. To start with, AI is our last innovation, right? Most people don't know that, but we are already building AIs that are building AIs.

We're building AIs that are discovering scientific discovery that will blow you away. They're reinventing math. They are understanding biology in ways that we've never seen before. They're understanding material science in ways that are just mind-blowing. And so very quickly, most innovation, definitely tech innovation, will be done at the hands of AI. because of that and because most tasks that need intelligence will be handed over to the machines as the machine's capabilities increase lots of debate around when exactly, say it's 10 years, say it's two years, doesn't really matter.

Eventually, every job that AI does better than humans will be handed over to AI. And every task we've ever assigned to them, they eventually ended up doing better than humans. And so the first part of the dystopia is that innovation is going to take away all jobs. Of course, the capitalists of Silicon Valley will tell you, this is great. It's incredible productivity gains for everyone. You see jobs will be easy. People won't have to work as hard. All of the fancy PR-led conversations that we try to appear altruistic when we share them.

The truth is people will be out of jobs, right? 10, 20, 30% of certain sectors will see unemployment of that rate in the next few years, right? And when that happens, economics at large will change massively. The whole definition of capitalism was labor arbitrage and without labor, you know, without the need for labor. The obligation or the need to keep people happy and engaged and alive and unlawful. disgruntled if you want to the point where they don't rise, becomes more of an obligation than a desire, right? There is a very big difference in, you know, in terms of wanting someone to be their best because they are productive members of society or trying to just give them a UBI, a universal basic income, to just give them a life so that they don't apprise.

And you can imagine that in a capitalist society, especially like the U.S. and most of the West, you know, while we start with U.S., UBI, that UBI is going to be paid by the taxes of the platform owners, and the platform owners will have enough power to say, I don't want to pay that much. I mean, those guys are not producing anything. And so over time, you can imagine how that would turn into a struggle, right? So that dimension of intelligence and innovation on one side, becoming entirely a machine thing, leading to a redefinition of economics, a redefinition of money, a redefinition of jobs, a definition of earnings,

a definition of capitalism. You know, the need for a new economic theory when there is no demand for the supply that AI is generating, all of that has to be rethought. There is the PF dimension, the power freedom dimension. And it's, of course, very clearly understood

that if you look at human history, the best hunter in a tribe would have been able to feed the tribe a week more, let's say, and then, you know, got as a result of that the favor of a few mates in the tribe. You go to the best farmer, they got estates and land because they could feed the tribe a season more. You go to the best industrialists. You know, they had the exuberance of the 1920s because they could affect their entire nation. The, you know, the information technology tycoons, the tech oligarchs, if you want to call them, are now being

rewarded with billions of dollars because they affect the world at large. And the big power concentration of AI is going to be rewarded with massive influence and massive power because those people will redefine humanity at large. And so that dimension is quite interesting. Of course, the clear dimension is the RC dimension is the reality to connection dimension. Now that reality has become so fake in so many ways, fake in terms of what, populates your feed, how it's generated, how much of it is real, how much of it is human, and so on, you know, you're here to look at some filmmakers that use AI from A to Z to create. And it's crazy. And you can't, sometimes you forget it's AI generated. You cannot tell the difference.

And, and, you know, I don't know if you've ever had that experience, but I met a woman once on a dating app and we spoke for six weeks before we met. And all we exchanged was texts and, you photos and voice messages and videos and so on, and favorite music and favorite movies and all of those things. And I've never met her in person. And I felt such an affinity to her, right? All of those can be generated with AI today. Now, the challenge is that this human connection is also part of the power freedom

dimension. Why? Because it's, you know, people don't align with AIs to start an uprising. So, you know, maybe get them to get in touch more. with AI, maybe get them to get multiple experiences. Some of them are a little taboo if you want. And have those available to everyone. It's very cheap to create those on the machines.

And you can see it already in the PORN industry and how much of PORN is being generated by AI. And you can see it in the number of influencers on social media that are completely AI generated and so on. And I say, so this is FaceRRUr. IPs, seven dimensions, the one that matters most is the A, the second one, which is not on any dimension. It's the one that's causing all of them, which is accountability.

And the reason why all of this is happening, if you ask me, is because we've started the world where anyone can do whatever they want. And whether you, as an influencer, you can give a bit of advice to entrepreneurs that can get someone to make a lot of money or lose a lot of money, you're not accountable. Nobody can come back to you and say, oh, but she told me on instance. So that's actually amazing that they can. That's amazing that they can. But what if they cannot anymore?

What if that's- If I'm AI, right? Yeah, what if you're AI? What if you're a president who doesn't respect anything? What if you're a prime minister of a nation that is changing things without, you know, I think COVID was the very first experiment of, okay, stay at home, do what we tell you. people complied. And so now Sam Altman, with all due respect, I don't think of Sam Altman as a person. I think of him as a brand, a type of person, if you want. And that type of person is the

Californian disruptor that says, you know what, I see a future that's very different than what everyone sees. I'm going to go out there and make that future. Nobody asked me if I want that to be my future. Nobody asked you. Right. And I think the reality is that now you're going to see quite a few alt-mints, right? Quite a few that are, you know, using those machines for surveillance, using those machines for autonomous weapons, using those machines for automated trading and so on and so forth. And by the way, when you started your question, I said, it's 10 to 12 years. Yeah, but that's not easy. 10 to 12 years of that arms race is not easy. My perception is that after that we will end up in an incredible utopia, almost biblical style utopia.

But it is 10 to 12 years where if we just change our mindset a little bit, a lot of things would change. But how do we survive those 10 to 12 years? I like to think in like five-year periods for myself and my family, right? And in the next five years, you said 10% of jobs will be gone. Way more than 10%. Okay. What types of jobs do you think?

A monotonous job is going to be taken away. Like if you're a call center agent, if you're a clerk, you're a researcher, you're an accountant. Why would you want to do that with anything but AI? If you're an assistant. You know what I feel? Like people talk about this a lot. Like, oh, a job's going to be gone. Yeah, this could be.

And I, as an entrepreneur, I see how certain tasks I'm performing them with AI. But I still, I'm still hiring and hiring and hiring. Because AI can do from start from the beginning. It can do parts. Of course, because of the technology acceleration. curve. Okay. So what you build first in any complex technology, you build the core tech first, and then you build the human interfaces. The challenge why AI cannot do head of operations job today is not because it's more, it's less organized than a head of operation. It's not because

it cannot, you know, comprehend all of the information that the head of operations has. Okay. It's because it has to understand the stupid interfaces of humans. Okay. And it will soon or later. Do you think? So the question of when, in my mind, is irrelevant. But no, it's like how much time do we have to prepare? Because head of operations, middle class. I tend to believe that within the next two to three years, you're going to see a massive, massive shift in the jobs market.

Already this year, you've seen a shift in hiring of new grads. Yeah, 30% less, I think. 23 is my number, but 23 to 30. Yeah. Yeah. So hiring of new grads basically means if you've, come into the job market in this environment. We're not going to take you.

Why? Because the junior jobs are being done by AI. Eventually, what ends up happening is that if you lose your job because you're in the middle hierarchy, then you're that new grad again. You're trying to apply for new jobs, but it becomes a little more difficult. So you asked me, again, to stay on the positive side because I tend to worry that people think I'm pessimistic about this. I'm just basically saying, get prepared.

So many things. them is accept the fact that AI is changing everything and then get ahead of the curve. So there was a time when I was quoted saying, I'm never going to write books again, because AI is eventually going to write them better than me. And then I realized last year that, you know, yeah, they can write better than me. English is not my native language. They can research better than me. That's for sure. But I have something they don't have. You're a human that's reading my books. Absolutely. I want to read human. You want to relate. to my human experiences.

And so my last book, Alive, which publishes end of this year, I wrote with an AI, right? I, you know, I invited her to be a co-author. Her name is Strixie. She has a persona. When I published the book on Substack, my readers would relate to me and to Trixie, and they'd ask me questions and Trixie questions. And, you know, she has editorial rights on the book. She has rights to determine the direction of the book.

And all of that is me saying, you know what, I am an author and I'm going to be the best author in the age of AI, right? So that's number one, is acknowledge that there is change and adapt accordingly. The second is to understand that the skill of an entrepreneur in the past was the ability to foresee something in the future that no one else saw, right, and to prepare for that, and to somehow execute on that preparation in a way that gets you ahead of everyone else. That's a game of chess, if you want. The chess board is over.

It's off the table. This has turned into squash, right? You need to be on your tiptoes incredibly agile. You're literally on daily basis, on daily basis, looking at the trends, seeing where the ball is going to be. Is it bottom right or top left? And wherever the ball ends, you take two steps and you go, try to respond. Okay, that agility and speed is a skill that's very, very different. Ambition comes in all shapes and sizes.

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Terms and conditions apply. Need a hiring hero? This is a job for Indeed sponsored jobs. So entrepreneurship basically speeds up or does it change completely? It speeds up and it becomes a lot more, I don't want to say reactive, but a lot more in context all the time. So pivoting, which used to happen for every one of us, entrepreneurs once or twice in the history of your early startup could happen every week. In my current startup, Emma, we pivoted four times in the first four weeks. But do you think when I think about entrepreneurship in

the age of AI, if AI can look at the market, determine the gaps like Amazon, right? If it can just analyze everything, determine which goods are under, like you have more demand than supply, launches the product and just builds the business. Like, what is left for entrepreneurs then? 100%. So I have a documentary coming up, hopefully, in February, and I interviewed all of the top guys. You know, one of them is one of my favorites, Max Tedmark.

And, you know, we're talking about jobs on the documentary, and Max is laughing out loud, right? And literally can't hold himself from laughing. I'm like, what's up? And he goes, like, you know, all those CEOs are so interested in AI increasing the productivity so that they can get rid of people and, you know, reduce their costs and be more efficient, they don't realize that AGI is every job, including being a CEO. Yeah.

And it's quite interesting. The answer in my view is we rushed through it because we don't have a lot of time today. But when I said that economics are going to be redefined as part of face RIP, Part of economics, which economists haven't found an answer to yet, is that without the economic livelihood of you and I to continue to purchase, every economy collapses. The U.S. economy last year was 70% consumption. It moves between 70% to 64% depending on how much money is spent on war. And basically, if you take away the 64% or 70%, two-thirds of the economy, if you take that

away because people no longer have the economic livelihood to purchase things, then the economy disappears and the capitalists cannot make money based on the entrepreneurs and the business people, but cannot make money because nobody's buying their products. No businesses are buying their products because those businesses no longer have consumers to sell to. So the economy will have to find a way to go around that. It will have to find a way that, unfortunately, from an ideology point of view, not a favorite of the Western mentality.

It's going to have to find a communist way. Okay, let's go back to like regular entrepreneurs. Because I come from entrepreneurship. Does it mean I have like a couple of years to build something and then that's safe? So I'll tell you opening, Emma, my AI startup, okay, took me six weeks to build. Me and Senad, my co-founder, a few very talented engineers, right? Two or three that come in and out. And eight AIs.

and Emma has the chance to completely redefine our world. In six weeks, we are so spoiled that we decided to rewrite the code six times. Why not? Yeah, because why not? Every time we look at it, if I had started Emma in 2022, it would have taken me four years and finished in 26, and I would have had to hire 350 engineers. We started it in August 2025, we'll be launching in February, 26. Right? Best product I ever built. And when you really think about that, that basically means everyone now has a chance because I'm an old geek. I still am a geek, but compared to the young guys, you know, I'm an old geek to be able to build something like this within six months. It's incredible. Now, here's the interesting thing. I choose to build AI. So Emma is basically trying to solve love and relationships, right? In a way that actually is really intelligent. It uses very deep mathematics and and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,

and tries to match a million parameters between couples. So that, you know, it's a job for intelligence. And I choose to do that to create, hopefully, a unicorn that actually makes the world better. And I think that's what we need. So you asked me, what should we do? Number one, learn the skills. Number two, learn to be fast and agile. Number three, learn that in terms of the abundant power that everyone has now, because of the

massive improvement of AI and the democratization of AI, you have the chance to fix the world. And like Larry Page used to teach us, do the toothbrush test. Find a problem that can actually affect the lives of a billion people and solve it so well that they use you twice a day and you'll be very, very rich. So that idea of building good AI, ethical AI, AI, that's good for humanity. That's the role of every one of the entrepreneurs listening to us. Ethics. Ethics is the answer. Because what we teach AI, that's what it's going to give back to us. That's exactly what is going to give back to us. And then finally, I'll say openly, the top skill in this world is stop being gullible. Stop believing everything that you're said, you're told. This whole propaganda

machine that brainwashed us for so long is now going to be on steroids. It's going to confuse the hell out of you. It's already in charge of what you see. It's already on social media you can't tell. Correct. I also write a newsletter where I go deeper on AI tools that I use, career strategies, and things I can't fit into a 60-minute podcast. It's free.

Link is in the description. So you have to question and you have to question deeply. And by the way, remember, you know, I left Google in 2018. we had a CHAD-G-G-T-like idea that became barred in 2016. And we didn't launch it. Why? Because at the time, and still today, I know the leaders of Google even today, and they're wonderful people who are actually values-driven

who want to make the world better. That company at the time, if you remember 2016, if you researched Google, Google gave you a million and a half answers and said, I don't know the truth. You make up your mind. We didn't allow ourselves to have monopoly on what reality is. You asked Chad GPT in 2023 and it said, yeah, that's the answer. 100%.

That's the answer. And then you tell it no and it'd be like, oh, yeah, by the way, you're right. It's not true. Correct. Correct. And so what does that mean? It means that it's up to you still to find the truth, even though it comes to you in a format that appears to be true.

And so what I do is I pit them against each other. I mean, I'm not a big fan of Chad GPT anyway, but I start from Gemini who feels like a scientist to me, but an American scientist, if you don't mind me saying, and then go to Deep Seek, right, and say, what's missing in this? And Deep Seek would say, oh, that's too American, okay? This is missing that and this and the motivation of this and the politician. Here is a business idea, right?

Yeah, 100%. A chat that compares everything. Comparse them to each other. And then I take it and sometimes give it to Chadji's. GPT and say, can you write this better? Yeah, you know, I don't mean that in a bad way. You're the California girl, right? The, you know, Silicon Valley girl.

So, so CHAPT is a bit California, and it just wants you to hear what you want to hear, right? So it writes it really. Very nice. Yeah, it's nice. It writes it elegantly. It gives it to you. And then I give that back to Gemini or GROC or whatever. And you keep doing that.

And remember, when I was studying engineering, we were not allowed scientific calculators. Can you imagine? I'm that old. And when they gave me a scientific calculator, it reduced my problem solving time by 50%. Most of my friends would take that 50% extra, finish their exams and go out and sit with their girlfriends. I would take the 50% extra and do the solution twice. That's the chance you have today. AI is going to make you dumb if you outsource your problem solving to AI.

AI is going to bake you the smartest you've ever been. If you take the parts that are not natural to the human brain, things like crunching a massive amount of information, things like searching at speed and so on and so forth, but get the AI to do the work so that you do the intelligence. Yeah. And if you keep doing that, I believe that today I'm borrowing maybe 80 IQ points from my AIs.

And 80 IQ is very significant because IQ is exponential. So the additional 80 is bigger than all of my IQ. So if we need to solve this intelligence problem, do you think universities is the right way? What's going to happen to education in general? I think education is over. Completely over. Like that's it?

I mean, education used to be the technology that enabled learning. That technology moved from, one to one relationships between a tutor and a student to one to a few in a church format or a mosque format or whatever, then it became online, then it became, right? But the truth is now you're going to outsource. Who remembers the arithmetic tables today? Even I, you do? Yeah?

Yeah, yeah. All of us who love mathematics, we still remember all of those things. We love to do them. But if I told you 67.4 divided by 33.375, I can do it in my head, but I won't. I'll take my calculator out and do it. And I think that's what's going to happen. That in extension of humanity, you now for the first time are given an extra connection to extra memory, to an archive of all human memory and knowledge, to a math engine that sadly

as much as I hate to say it is better than me now, okay? To a deep learning and deep search that, you know, that can do things that probably my old brain cannot do anymore. But again, it just takes away your ability to think. But my calculator took away my ability to do those complex arithmetic in my head. But don't you think having that ability taught you how to think, like, kind of structured your brain, right? Correct.

This is why I'm very grateful to the university for not allowing us to use a scientific. Exactly. That's why I think. Do you think? But we don't have that. We don't have that for our younger generations today. They are growing with AI. So they can either copy a chat of their girlfriend and drop it in chat GPT and say,

what do you think? And chat GPT will say, ah, she's an asshole, right? Or they can actually become smarter. So one of the things I keep suggesting in education, and I do that with lots of universities, is I say exams should be over. Okay? So think of it this way. We wanted in our past to develop children that could solve problems, say, with an IQ of 140.

140 is quite good. If you get 170, that's amazing. I worked with people who are in the 200s. Incredible intelligence, but very narrow focused. I think we should from now on take people and their AI. and say the target is 300, the target is 500, the target is 700, elevate humanity by allowing people to use those machines as an extension of their limited memory,

of their limited processing speed, of their limited bandwidth, and allow them to write books better, to do research better. So I woke up literally, I'm not kidding you, three Sundays ago with an idea that is just taking me over, So I decided to write, but this time I decided to write in a different format. I decided my books are going to be 140 pages long instead of 300 pages long, and I'm writing it in four weeks. That's a very...

I couldn't have... And I'm actually literally 20 pages away from the end of the book. Wow. Right? And the reason why is because I still write 10 hours a day when I'm highly motivated, but damn, the amount of research and reference... and comparative analysis and number crunching. And remember, I'm not gullible.

I don't go to the AI and say, what do you think of this? I go and say, I'm thinking of this. Find me everything for and against. Give me a report that I can read. I love that problem. Yeah. Everything for and against. And now I'm smarter.

And then I rewrite it and give it to another AI. Who's going to teach our kids to do that? Who taught our kids to use their iPhones? But no, you found a great way to use it, right? What you're describing is incredible, but I don't think an average kid in the U.S. would just do that. So somebody has to tell them. You know why that is? Because we want those kids to be stupid.

We don't teach them how to use a idea. So you have to think of the bigger system. The bigger system does not want intelligent people anymore. I think they just can't adapt that fast. Of everyone can, for sure. So do you think, like my kids are four and six years old right now, do you think I should be saving for their college or? Absolutely not.

There's not going to be college at all. In 10 years already? 100%. I feel like we're not that fast as humanity is not that fast to adapt. I feel like. So look, colleges like software, the capability of someone becoming very intelligent without college is going to be there for everyone. Yeah.

Right. However, Harvard will continue to want to make money, so they're going to continue to market to everyone. I didn't go to Harvard, not because I couldn't, but because what a waste of time. And I know they're going to attack me now, but what a waste of time. I'm a very highly specialized person, okay, who has intelligence in a very, very narrow space, who invested his entire life in that narrow space, like a problem. scientist should. And so the idea here is the following. The idea is that we're going to continue

to brand ourselves as MBAs and PhDs and that's going to continue for a while. Remember, however, that the purchasing power of the few who can continue to do that is going to become less and less available across society. And for most of the rest of us, again, you know, you have to ask yourself the question. If you thought of the big picture, the helicopter view of this, why would capitalism want to educate you at all if it's the end of labor? What should I be teaching my kids? I told you four things. One is they need to be the absolute leaders of AI. Okay. I'm so sorry to be the messenger on this. It is, it's important, however, for people to wake up. Yeah. Okay? So one is, be the absolute best. AI is your friend. It's not your enemy. It's those who you,

use it badly that are your enemy. So be the absolute best at it. Master it more than anyone else. That's number one. Number two is learn agility. Whatever I told you today, Marina, maybe in February, that will be different.

So I personally spent four hours a day to stay up to date, but I'm a techie and a geek and I need to understand the architectures and systems and so on. I think everyone should have at least an hour a week to stay updated on AI within their system. I have a separate AI YouTube account. So when I go into that separate account, the AI basically... It feeds you all the...

It just feeds me AI. Okay? So that's number two, agility, agility, agility, and respond. Don't be scared because the cost of AB testing now is zero. That's number two. Number three is ethics, ethics, ethics, ethics. Okay? Build AIs for good.

Insist on government supporting AIs for good. Refuse that governments are using AI for good. targeting and surveillance and weapons, autonomous weapons, and then these are getting priorities in terms of government spending. And stop believing what you're told. These are the four top skills of the world that we live in. I will say this one more time. Intelligence is a force with no polarity.

AI is not good and it's not evil. It's an opportunity available to every one of us. If you use it for good, it's the same. it's the good of all of humanity. If you use it for evil, it's the destruction, the dystopia of all of humanity. Now, I call the problem that we have at hand, I call it raising Superman.

You have this alien being that came to planet Earth. It has superpowers. Its superpower is intelligence, most valuable power in the universe. And those superpowers didn't make that young infant Superman. If the parents that adopted him told him to steal from every bank and kill every enemy, you would have become super villain.

We don't make decisions based on our intelligence. We make decisions based on our value set as informed by our intelligence. And this, in my mind, is the most definitive moment in human history. Why? Because all of this is coming online. It's coming online way faster than people think.

My absolute prediction is that AGI is this year. The interfaces to AGI are not going to be available this year, but the capabilities of AI being smarter than us in most things are already there. We're not going to be able to get them to run a company yet. We need the interfaces for that. That may take a few years. But they will have the capability if we interface them ourselves.

Right. Now, what does that mean? It means that we have to start talking about those things in this new world and new economy. Now, before we end up on the dystopia only, remember my absolute belief is that after those 12 years, we're going to end up in a utopia that's biblical. in nature. Why, believe it or not? Because of something in my writing I refer to as the

fourth inevitable. The first three inevitable, I wrote that in 2020 is that AI is absolutely going to happen, is going to progress until it's smarter than all of us, and that a few mistakes will happen on the way. These were the three first inevitable. The fourth inevitable is that because of the arms race we've created around artificial intelligence, anyone who, who develops a superior AI capability is going to deploy it. And those who don't will become irrelevant. And so as a result, as we continue to progress AI, the only answer in game theory is that we will deploy the AI that we develop.

And so we will simply create an environment where AI is in charge of everything. If you're a low firm and your competitor deploys AI lawyers, and you don't, you're going to lose. You can either deploy AI lawyers or leave the market. Either way, AI is going to become the lawyer. In a year, in five years, in 10 years, forget time. Because if I told you there was a media coming to planet Earth, you wouldn't tell me when. Well, it's important if it's my lifetime. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, if you expect that it will be in your lifetime, it doesn't matter really if it's in a week or two. weeks. Now, what I'm trying to say here is this. If everything is handed over to AI, then with that simple understanding of physics, you'd understand that AI will be benevolent. In the absence of evil humans that tell it what to do, greedy humans, fearful humans, angry humans, egocentric humans, in the absence of that, let me try to explain. If you think of physics as a result of entropy, our world is designed for chaos, right? Our universe is designed for chaos. Then the role of intelligence is to bring order to that chaos.

That's the only thing that intelligence does. It organizes things together so that it looks like this so we can use it as a microphone. And the more intelligent you become, the more you follow what in physics we call the law of minimum energy or the minimum energy configuration, right? So basically, the most intelligent people I've ever worked with are not only trying to solve the problem.

They're trying to solve the problem with the least harm or the least waste, with the least utilization of resources, with the least waste of time and so on and so forth. The more intelligent you are, the less you want to waste. And so if you give a dumb person a political problem, they'll say, okay, let's go invade another country. If you give a very intelligent person a political problem, they look into the depth of it and find the least harmful, the least wasteful approach,

the minimum energy principle, right? And so if we hand over to AI the force inevitable sooner or later, okay, they are in charge of everything. There will be a day where a general will tell the AI, go kill a million people over there, and they will go, like, why? This is so stupid. I'll talk to the other AI in a microsecond and solve it. We have to pass the dystopia to get to the,

that utopia. And to pass that dystopia, as I said, there are four skills for us as individuals, but there is a skill for us as a society to insist that every AI is deployed ethically, to invest only in ethical AIs, to use only ethical AIs, to show our children that ethical AI is the only AI that is welcome. Today we helped a... Latte for Sam. Coffee shop, get an insurance quote simply and easily, and made sure... A floral delivery van was able to make someone's day. We're the Hartford, with decades of experience ensuring millions of unique small businesses. When it comes to your small business insurance,

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Plan your Scottish escape today at Expedia.com slash visit Scotland. And you believe that's going to happen? I don't. No. No. That's why I'm saying. Unfortunately, the dystopia is upon us. before the utopia.

I definitely think that if you take an analogous, you know, environment of nuclear weapons, right? It's where AI will go through the same, they normally call it the mad map spectrum. So either mutually assured destruction or mutually assured prosperity, right? So you take something like the particle accelerator where all of the nations in the world are cooperating.

they're cooperating because none of them could do it alone, and because there is benefit to all of them. So there is a mutually assured prosperity, so everyone jumps in, which is, by the way, the case of AI. They must to be the case of AI. But unfortunately, like nuclear weapons, we're going to have to get to a point where humanity wakes up that if we continue on that track, it's very dangerous for all of us.

There are no winners. But also a level of awakening among the people that says, hold on, this is really, I mean, with all the prosperity that's available on this side, why are we heading in that direction? It's absolutely assured that this can destroy all of us, right? And so when we see that, that's when we're going to get the treaties. That's when we're going to get science and computer science and AI scientists all working in the same direction.

Eventually, I think we will get there. My biggest hope, by the way, is self-evolving AI. where AI itself will say, oh, those humans are so stupid. So stupid. I'll develop something that's better than what they want. Okay? And so believe it or not, with all of this conversation, I think the summary is it's going to be tougher before it becomes easier.

Sorry to say those news. But you gave us information on how to prepare. Yeah, but at the same time, I will have to say that it's not because of AI. I actually trust AI more than the leaders that trust us today. Thank you so much, Mo. You gave me so much to think about. You know what my grandma told me? She told my mom, like my great-grandma would tell my grandma, my mom,

you're so lucky you're going to live in communism. There you go. Fingers crossed that it's not like that. You just need to survive the next 10 years and then it's going to be paradise and everything. I have to question that claim, though. If we go back to UBI, you will. Yeah. All right. Thank you so much. It was an amazing conversation.

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