Steven Bartlett with Mo Gawdat
Artificial intelligence may first deepen inequality and control in human hands, then push society toward a post-work world that forces a rethinking of power, purpose, and human flourishing.
We are entering a 12 to 15-year phase of human-induced dystopia where technological oligarchs use artificial intelligence to consolidate power, enforce compliance, and widen global inequality.
The critical turning point for exponential technological acceleration is the emergence of self-evolving artificial intelligence that can rewrite its own code far better than any human engineer.
Because superintelligence and advanced robotics may eventually drive the cost of physical production and energy toward zero, the capitalist economic model built on labor arbitrage could collapse.