Mo Gawdat
Former Chief Business Officer at Google X and author who now focuses on AI risk and the future of humanity.
Circuit updated June 19, 2026
- Mo Gawdat says AGI is already here and your job has roughly three years
“AI writes better than me and I'm an author. And it researches better than me and I'm a thinker. Uh sadly, it's freaking beat me in mathematics. Like I have no hope to beat it in mathematics anymore.” 11:46
- Mo Gawdat says everyone except China and America is about to become third world in AI
“if we continue on that trajectory whether in the UK or in Germany or in you know uh Zanzibar welcome to Africa all of us everyone but the two competitors China and and America is going to be third world” 16:05
- Ex-Google Insider Mo Gawdat Says Your Job Has About Three Years
“There's a lot of people that are paid in the world to click around on a computer. I'm probably one of them, to be honest.” 0:30
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“The challenge, however, is economic. It's not AI. The challenge is that the this job loss at the at the at the bottom of the knowledge worker is going to sadly trigger an economy that might actually spiral out of control.”
Mo Gawdat · The Diary of a CEO -
“It's not that jobs will end first. It's that productivity gains will make businesses not want to have as many people, costly humans, costly emotional humans when the job can be predictably done for cheaper.”
Mo Gawdat · The Diary of a CEO -
“if we continue on that trajectory whether in the UK or in Germany or in you know uh Zanzibar welcome to Africa all of us everyone but the two competitors China and and America is going to be third world”
Mo Gawdat · The Diary of a CEO -
“AI writes better than me and I'm an author. And it researches better than me and I'm a thinker. Uh sadly, it's freaking beat me in mathematics. Like I have no hope to beat it in mathematics anymore.”
Mo Gawdat · The Diary of a CEO -
“You have to start observing who's actually behaving in a way that is making AI work for humanity, and who is behaving in a way that is making AI work for their share values.”
Mo Gawdat · The Diary of a CEO -
“The more intelligent you become, the less you find you feel the need to hurt others to succeed, and the more you are pro a wider family, if you want, that thrives.”
Mo Gawdat · The Diary of a CEO
Mo Gawdat says AGI is already here and your job has roughly three years
The ex-Google insider who wrote a book about AI happiness thinks the smarter-than-human threshold is not coming. It passed.
Mo Gawdat says everyone except China and America is about to become third world in AI
The former Google X executive's bleak AI forecast is less about killer robots than the UK paying rent forever to someone else's software stack.
Ex-Google Insider Mo Gawdat Says Your Job Has About Three Years
The former Google X chief business officer comes to The Diary of a CEO with a countdown clock and a dim view of Sam Altman's recent pivot to optimism.