‘AI will be better than humans at everything,’ warns former Google executive; says ‘In 15 years, lots of jobs will be lost, including…’

“Unless you’re in the top 0.1%, you’re a peasant,” he said. “AGI will be better at everything than humans, even being a CEO.”

How do you contain something that’s a billion times smarter than you?

Mo Gawdat is back, his fifth appearance on The Diary Of A CEO and possibly his most important one yet.

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Drawing on his own experience, Gawdat pointed to his startup, Emma.love — an AI-powered emotional and relationship platform run by just three people. In the past, he noted, a similar business would have needed hundreds of developers. “As a matter of fact, podcaster is going to be replaced,” he added, highlighting how even creative and personal industries won’t be spared.

Unlike previous technological revolutions that mainly displaced manual labour, Gawdat believes this shift will cut through white-collar jobs and erode the economic foundation of modern societies.

However, he also offered a glimpse of what could follow: a post-2040 world free from repetitive work and material obsession, where people focus on community, creativity, spirituality, and love. Achieving that vision, he stressed, will require governments and companies to act now, through measures like universal basic income and the ethical development of AI.

“We are headed into a short-term dystopia, but we can still decide what comes after that,” he told host Steven Bartlett, insisting that regulation and equal access to AI will be critical in shaping the outcome.

Gawdat’s cautionary stance echoes other AI leaders’ concerns. Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of AI,” recently warned that advanced AI systems might evolve their own internal language, one humans can’t interpret. “If they start thinking in their own language,” Hinton said, “we might not even know what they’re thinking.”