Steven Bartlett with Mo Gawdat
Could AI first disrupt work and warfare, then help create peace? This forecast contrasts the danger of human-directed systems with the speculative promise of a later superintelligence.
By 2028, up to 30% of jobs in certain sectors-including entry-level knowledge roles like paralegals and graphic designers-could disappear 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.
In Gawdat's account, the AI arms race leaves neither countries nor companies able to slow development on their own while rivals keep releasing models.