The AI Wealth Gap: Why 40x Deflation Changes Everything w/ Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail, Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross | EP #208
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
PHD Ventures
4.8 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So the number one concern globally is cost of living. |
| 0:04.0 | And tied very closely to that is unemployment. |
| 0:07.0 | Will I get a job? |
| 0:08.0 | And then the third concern is poverty and social inequities. |
| 0:12.0 | And we talk about a future abundance, we talk about demonization, |
| 0:16.0 | but this is the reality of what people are feeling. |
| 0:19.0 | This is a story about preparing for the worst. Maybe the |
| 0:22.9 | worst thing any of us can imagine. The wealth isn't going to go to the people who are doing the |
| 0:28.4 | work or the people who get unemployed. It's going to go to making the rich, richer and the poor |
| 0:32.7 | poorer. You got a third of your income going into your phone and your data plan and all that money |
| 0:38.4 | funnels out of the country and kind of lands in, like you said, Silicon Valley and Boston. |
| 0:43.6 | And then you add AI as a layer on top of that and the gap is going to get really, really wide. |
| 0:48.6 | So that's the reality of a huge fraction of the world's population though. |
| 0:52.1 | The question is how do we help people believe in a hopeful and compelling future? |
| 0:55.8 | Because if they don't believe it's a hopeful and compelling future, |
| 0:59.5 | um... |
| 1:02.0 | Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:07.2 | Everybody, welcome to our episode on WTF Just Happened in Tech. |
| 1:10.8 | Here with my moonshot mates, Dave Dave, Dave, Celine Ismail. |
| 1:16.2 | Good morning, Salim, and Alex Weizner Gross. |
| 1:19.8 | So, guys, it's been quite a week. |
| 1:23.2 | You've been in Brazil, Sleem, just back? |
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