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Mo Gawdat, former Google X exec, on AI's biggest near-term risk
2026-04-09T17:06:07.805Z Description Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Mo Gawdat is a former chief business officer at Google X and a longtime tech leader who worked on scaling Google in emerging markets. In this interview, he argues modern AI isn't "just software" but a new kind of intelligence that learns, improves, and could soon operate with real-world agency through robots and autonomous systems. Gawdat warns that the biggest near-term danger isn't intelligence itself, but what humans tell powerful systems to do, including persuasion, misinformation, surveillance, cyber conflict, and automated warfare. He predicts a turbulent transition as jobs and economies are disrupted, and says the world may be forced to rethink capitalism in an era where "abundance" drives costs toward zero. Mo Gawdat is a former chief business officer at Google X and a longtime tech leader who worked on scaling Google in emerging markets. In this interview, he argues modern AI isn't "just software" but a new kind of intelligence that learns, improves, and could soon operate with real-world agency through robots and autonomous systems. Gawdat warns that the biggest near-term danger isn't intelligence itself, but what humans tell powerful systems to do, including persuasion, misinformation, surveillance, cyber conflict, and automated warfare. He predicts a turbulent transition as jobs and economies are disrupted, and says the world may be forced to rethink capitalism in an era where "abundance" drives costs toward zero. Show more
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Mo Gawdat, a former chief business officer at Google, said AI could replace jobs in less than five years, starting with intellectual work and eventually extending to physical labor. "You will have AI's agency in the real world, where they actually can carry things and move things and replace every job," Gawdat said.
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