Steven Bartlett with Mo Gawdat
Artificial General Intelligence will arrive by 2027, triggering a decade of brutal economic disruption and militarized drone warfare before an eventual superintelligent utopia emerges.
By 2028, up to 30% of jobs in certain sectors-including entry-level knowledge roles like paralegals and graphic designers-will vanish as companies replace human labor with cheaper compute tokens.
The most urgent existential threat is the rapid proliferation of autonomous $20,000 military drones that will democratize lethal targeting and trigger a new era of mutually assured destruction.
Nations must immediately build their own localized AI infrastructure to replace costly legacy software, or they risk becoming completely subservient to American and Chinese tech monopolies.