Most Replayed Moment: Mo Gawdat - This Is The Only Thing That Will Survive AI, We Must Act Now!

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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As AI rapidly advances, Mo Gawdat shares a candid and thoughtful exploration of what the future holds for humanity. From AI’s growing intelligence and its impact on creativity to the looming disruption of jobs and society, this top moment challenges us to rethink our role in a world where machines might outsmart us. Mo also reflects on the irreplaceable value of human connection and the need to prepare for a future shaped by technology. Whether you’re excited or worried about AI, this conversation offers a crucial perspective on how we adapt, survive, and find meaning in the age of artificial intelligence. Register yourself by visiting: ⁠Gartner.com/Symposium⁠ Listen to the full episode here - Spotify - ⁠https://g2ul0.app.link/ocYmHrkuoTb⁠ Apple - ⁠https://g2ul0.app.link/EBSoMmQuoTb⁠ Watch the Episodes On YouTube - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos⁠ Mo Gawdat - https://www.mogawdat.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're an IT leader or a CIO or someone who makes big decisions in tech, there's an event
0:04.6	happening this year that I want to be on your radar. Gartner, the sponsor of today's
0:08.4	moments episode, is hosting their annual IT Symposium Expo. This conference is the fastest way to
0:13.9	get up to speed with everything that's happening in tech. The whole idea is to give executives
0:17.9	frameworks to lead confidently in 2025 in a world that's evolving so incredibly fast.
0:23.6	And Gartner's global reach means there's an event near you, including the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.
0:28.6	You can expect conversations on AI, cyber security, leadership in a digital age, as well as an industry-specific deep dive.
0:35.6	Secure your spot by registering at gartner.com slash symposium. That's gartner.com
0:41.7	slash symposium. And enjoy this moment with Mo Gordat, former CBO of Google X, talking about the
0:47.4	possibility of AI replacing humans in the workforce. So the first inevitable, just to clarify,
0:51.8	is what is, will we stop? AI will not be stopped.
0:54.6	Okay, so the second inevitable is...
0:56.2	Is there will be significantly smarter.
0:57.8	As much in the book, I predict, a billion times smarter than us by 2045.
1:02.9	I mean, they're already, what, smarter than 99.99% of the population.
1:06.6	100%.
1:07.2	Chat GTP4 knows more than any human on planet Earth.
1:10.4	Knows more information. Absolutely. A
1:12.1	thousand times more. A thousand times more. By the way, the code of a transformer, the T in a in a GPT is
1:20.9	2,000 lines long. It's not very complex. It's actually not a very intelligent machine. It's simply predicting the next
1:29.5	word. And a lot of people don't understand that. You know, Chad GPT as it is today, you know,
1:35.4	those kids that, you know, if you're in America and you teach your child all of the names of the
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