The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett • 4 August 2025

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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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  Sponsors:  Linkedin Ads - https://www.linkedin.com/DIARY Replit - http://replit.com with code STEVEN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices