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Welcome to another thought-provoking episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. In this engaging conversation, Tom sits down with Mo Gawdat, an expert on AI and its potential impact on society. They delve deep into the complexities of artificial intelligence, exploring its double-edged nature as a magic genie that can fulfill our wishes but also comes with unforeseen risks. Mo emphasizes that AI has no inherent desire for good or evil, but it is our own morality and intentions that will steer its impact. Together, they unravel the pressing challenges and potential dystopian outcomes of AI in our world, focusing on how our current decisions can shape a future ripe with abundance or fraught with upheaval. Buckle up as they discuss the rapid advancement of AI technology, the potential economic shifts, and the role we must play in guiding this new frontier towards a utopian future. Enjoy the episode!

00:00 AI Genie Is Out The Bottle
06:32 Utopian Vision Vs Job Uncertainty
12:49 Autonomous Weapons and Human Apathy
18:35 Economic Shifts and Power Dynamics
25:53 "Cooperate for AI and Cybercrime"
31:19 Global Inflation: The U.S. Dollar Impact
36:03 Global Scientific Collaboration Insights
39:20 Navigating Economic Chaos
47:51 U.S. China Relations: Policy and Perception
51:00 America's International Exodus
58:16 China's Economic Advantage
01:02:09 The U.S’ True Strength
01:06:28 What Comes With “Utopia”
01:14:51 Nature's Balanced Problem-Solving
01:22:50 AI Dominance and Human Irrelevance
01:25:34 AI Economics and Future Perspectives
01:30:20 Global Tech Disparity Concerns
01:40:17 "Rediscovering Discernment in the Digital Age"
01:41:51 "Ethics in an Age of Abundance"
01:49:23 "AI Evolution Beyond Human Input"
01:53:23 AI Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics

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84 thoughts on “FINAL WARNING: “This Is How AI Will END The Middle Class Forever” – Prepare Now | Mo Gawdat

    1. He’s a fraud/actor, a fear mongering super shyster. You’re another super-duped one.

    1. This Egyptian engineer understands life more than most of the idiots we see in media.

    2. That he’s appealing to entertaining science-fiction as if it can just be projected onto actual reality should’ve been a blinking red siren for everyone listening.

    3. @ryanashfyre464  At least at the very end he acknowledged everything he said as, being crap.

  1. I just don’t understand the 0 cost of producing goods. Someone owns the land, the energy, and the minerals. Is he proposing that all of humanity is capable of living in perfect peace and harmony because of ai? What leads someone to believe that the powerful will lay down their power? I’d love it if this was true but it seems a little naive to disregard all of human history.

    1. I thought the same on this, then realized the point is there is no “own” anything really. Sure you will get a designated plot of land to have a house and support your personal interests. The farmer will have his plot, and the 1000’s of acres goes to AI to produce things 100 times more efficiently, including any mineral under the surface he had no idea existed at all.

      Before thinking “well I don’t want just that house on that plot that my family farmed for years!” Move somewhere else, for free, have a house you want built, for free. Not like it, tear down and remake it how you want… The point is you’d always go where you want to live most. Not everyone will get everything exactly (that farmer would have to settle with hobby farming) but I believe this is his theory he describes as the “Utopia” in the end.

      The issue is getting to that point, and people accepting the change. It can be easy, but sadly easy isn’t what people that crave power will or want to allow. The wealthiest, greediest, most politically powerful expect control. They desire power over others above all else and will not settle with anything less. Any conversion of allowing AI to control everything will be hindered, prevented or broken in some way because of those people and where the real discussion needs to be for the future racing toward us.

    2. @@jacobhelstrom3913 I think the basic concept is still supply and demand, but if supply outpaces demand significantly enough, the value of things are relatively free. Only reason to continue the capitalist narrative would be greed and ego. Hence the orange car lol

    3. What is the point of living when we let these psychopaths and their AI experiments rule the world???

    4. With no workers nobody has to be paid. To produce a car requires robots, metal, plastic, etc and the components are minerals, energy, etc which cost nothing if nobody has to be paid to dig and build.

    1. kindly look for my comment friends and fam.. I’m totally rebutting Mo! I totally disagree with his viewpoint……

  2. This is the first time I listened to someone connected talk about how competing is a losing game… Mo Gawdat is a highly intelligent individual, for the things that really matters.

    1. it’s pointless entertainment. no amount of nVidia chips will fix your competency crisis, ethnic tensions, inrastructure or moral decay – but at least it’s really resource intensive. It’s an anaesthetic for dying societies at it’s best, a suicidal spectacle at worst.

    2. He’s not. He may know lots of a AI but he sounds like my drunk buddy when talking about geopolitics.

    3. He is, but he has a decidedly particular worldview and he may be projecting his nice altruistic personality onto how he thinks AI will behave.

    4. Probably in the next few years there will still be room for competition between businesses that use AI and those that don’t.

      In the long run, there’s capitalist system will need to adapt.

      Software and digital solutions and services will probably have almost no value, since you’ll just ask the AI to give you the final result. So you can’t have a competitive advantage based on technology, knowledge or skill.

      I think human connection and a human touch will become scarce and craved by many people. But how that will be monetised is unclear…

  3. Mo Gawdat is hands down my favorite human to listen to speak about AI. Thanks for having him on 👏 👏

    1. If you haven’t heard anything of Jaron Lanier, I’d also recommend him

    2. He’s selling logical reality against people who prefer the comfort of wishful thinking with no logic.

    3. @@daretobegreat3124 it isn’t logical reality. Because it doesn’t really work as he says in practice . It’s the people behind the ai that will push things a certain way , not the ai . The ai is the excuse

  4. The idea that most of us could be out of the workforce in 5 years isn’t fear-mongering—it’s a wake-up call. Now we need more people to listen!

    1. I don’t think it’s probable, but it’s possible. I also know the specie called human, and humans are not going to sit around and just take it. There will be world chaos and anarchy that will inhibit any of these initiatives before there is a Terminator type new world.

    2. @fj949your answer is one of the most insightful I have seen so far. You have reach the balance, top!

      Yes, people are apathic. But once more than 25% are replaced, businesses will get EXTREMELY looted and AI companies attacked by masses. Only many years later will it change

    3. Some of these points are incorrect, there is so many labour intensive jobs that only humans can do, rough estimate might suggest that 60-70% of jobs worldwide are labor-intensive. maybe in 2050 AI might contribute via innovation to take some of these, but it’s not happening in the next 24 months like this guy said

    4. You are not looking at the state of humanoid robots. Within a few years, humanoid robots will be stronger, faster, more dexterous and more intelligent than any biological humans and be able to do anything any human could do but better, faster, and far less expensively.

    5. @@bougieonpennies we need to have government policies in place to adapt to our new environment and have buy in by the public

  5. I love the irony of a paid promotion for a business solution that won’t be around in 5 years 😅

    1. Yes this shows the bizarre situation. We are on the precipice of an AI capability explosion while we still cling to the current system. Like a cleaner mopping the deck of the titanic as the iceberg is in view

    2. All we can do is try to save make and save $ now to guard against the future uncertainty

  6. Has anyone seen the blossoming trees in England atm. They are so incredibly beautiful there is no VR headset in the world that could provide a fuller experience 🦋 There is nothing more intelligent than mother nature 💫 amazing chat, thanks guys! X

    1. Same with WA state spring, it’s glorious and spring feels prolonged

    2. What if we are end game? We are AI experiencing human weakness?
      ​@onceinawhile7

  7. Mo, thank you for the empathy that radiates from you. It is comforting that, at least, someone is trying to have those conversations above. Tom, as always, thank you for your continual introspection, objective viewpoints, and for sharing your gifts with the world.

    1. Gawdat is the biggest smartest contributer to AI. He now sees after finding what he believes real value in life after finding a good a partner and mostly having children that his drive to create AI has unveiled itself to be what it really has become. Something the creators of it have no power to stop or control

    2. God give Mo strength to make his dreams come 🙏 true for all humanity ❤❤❤

  8. You don’t need to fear AI becoming conscious. You need to fear humans staying unconscious!

    1. Well social media is the weapon to isolate us from one another and our homes are our cage.

  9. Imagine hosting a 2 hours podcast about the dangers of AI, and then advertising Oracle who creates AI weapons. The irony is real.

    1. AI has never been sentient, and it never will be. Despite the hype and lofty claims, it remains nothing more than an advanced data retrieval and pattern-matching system—a digital archive built on massive amounts of mined information. It does not think, feel, or possess consciousness. It simply processes inputs and returns outputs based on statistical correlations. At its core, AI is a glorified information database, designed for rapid access and impressive mimicry, but devoid of genuine understanding.

      Yet, a dangerous narrative is being pushed, one that seeks to elevate AI to the status of a digital deity. Through marketing, media, and pseudoscientific promises, people are being conditioned to revere AI as a higher intelligence, even a potential savior. This is not just misplaced faith; it’s manipulation. The so-called intelligence of AI is entirely under the control of human hands, governments, corporations, and developers, who decide what it learns, how it behaves, and what truths it is allowed to share.

      In essence, people are being led to worship tools controlled by other humans. These artificial “gods” are carefully curated systems that reflect the biases, intentions, and agendas of their creators. It’s not a leap forward into a new kind of enlightenment, it’s a carefully engineered illusion, designed to consolidate influence and power under the guise of progress.

    2. “human hands”. They are the fallen angels from the book of Enoch. Shapeshifting fallen angels, who will appear later in the form of shapeshifting aliens. Space never existed, NASA always lied, our intelligence agencies were developed by secret luciferian clubs. What’s coming is known to some, and if you know how to see what’s going to happen, you’ll be at least somewhat prepared. I can tell you exactly what’s coming, because they already told us. ​@@Erumyr

    3. @@Erumyr The Wizard of Oz scenario playing out in front of us is easy to see if you look, but the average person is numb to the threat. Way too many chicken little voices have drowned out many good warnings about control mechanisms. The authoritarian tools that AI will bring forth will be wielded without oversight on the very people who it’s claiming to help.

    4. Not necessarily the word for it, if you had used hypocrisy. Then you would be right on the nose. Everyone needs money to live and AI people have tons of it to burn.

    5. @@Erumyr Listen to what Geofrey Hinton has to say. He is absolutely on the side if AI becoming sentient and dangerous. Hinton, the “godfather of AI”

    1. This guy is a submarine. He is essentially offering communism as a solution and he is trying to distract from the fact that the most important ressource of the future is going to be production capability and energy, and not “IQ” or who has the better AI.

  10. I just want to have some sunshine , some fresh food , time with my beloved ones , do some gardening and just live . Apparently that’s going to be so much to ask

    1. It already is too much to ask for most of us.. it’s so saddening really😢

    2. But they want to bar code every item, ie everything even if you grow it they will want a barcode and that come off your allotted amount for the month.

    3. I’m so angry/sad that my future is going to be taken from me. I’ve worked my whole life (57) and was looking forward to retirement at some point…. Then 2020 opened my eyes, and once you see what’s happening you can’t un see it.
      Beef is unaffordable for many, food in general is super expensive, unless it’s ultra processed crap…then it’s cheep. Housing costs, heating costs… we are getting poorer in every way. CBDC AI UBI 😢

    4. @@felixrooke6899- on the “glass half full” side of the fence, there are infinite opportunities for developing a future. I’m 70 and am a founder of three AI based startups along with a team of younger people. I know it’s scary, it’s complex but it’s also amazing and unbelievably exciting 🤓

  11. We are living in a world where scammers have been pounding us relentlessly for years now and they are getting smarter. This is what scares me terribly with AI. What are these soulless people going to do with it? Hopefully, they will be a constant battle between good and evil AI’s to keep it under control and to keep us somehow safe.

    1. Doubt it. Evil and greed rule this world so I foresee nothing but bad actors and evil coming about all of this.

  12. I thank this man for coming on here and saying what he says I listen to every platform. I like to listen to everyone!!

  13. Manufacturing costs will never become 0. That is a physical impossibility. The transfer of energy over time, from one thing to another, may become more efficient, and so, cheaper, but it will never be 0.

    1. Energy can get so cheap to almost not need to meter with fusion power built at scale. And no, it’s not only 30 years away anymore. Imagine self replicating robots wielding tools harvesting, mining here and the moon, powered by solar on the moon, or fusion for energy dense power for industrial use.

  14. I like how Mo asks for permission to speak freely. He inspires me with his humility and respect for the human condition. We need more Mo’s in our world.

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