The world will enter a 15 -year -old dystopia in 2027, says the former Google Exec

The world rushes towards an inevitable AI dystopia in the very close future, according to Mo Gawdat, the former business director of the Alphabet Lunchot factory, formerly known as Google X.

“We will have to prepare for a very unknown world,” said Gawdat in an interview on the podcast “Journal of a CEO”, adding that the key values of humanity such as freedom, human connection, responsibility, reality and power are all confronted with a major AI disturbance.

And this dystopia is not far away, we have already started to see signs from last year and will continue to see an escalation of the panels next year, said Gawdat. The start of the descent into Gawdat dystopia, he predicts, will start in 2027 and last for the next 12 to 15 years.

The former Google executive was not always of this opinion: the speed at which the technologies of artificial intelligence developed have changed it and convinced it that this short -term dystopia is inevitable.

“It is completely in our hands to change that, but I must say that I do not think that humanity is consciousness at the moment to focus on this,” said Gawdat.

But Gawdat says that AI is not necessarily the main engine of this dystopia, and especially not the way most people imagine (that is to say the existential risks from scenarios that have an AI by assuming full control). On the contrary, Gawdat says that AI acts as a kind of existing societal problems and “our stupids as human beings”.

“There is absolutely nothing wrong at AI,” said Gawdat. “There is a lot of trouble with the value of humanity at the age of the rise of machines.”

Aim for a utopia, but obtain dystopia

Artificial intelligence has not been developed to inaugurate dystopia, in fact it had a rather utopian mission. By further automating banal tasks, AI has the potential to facilitate the workload of millions of workers in the world in each work and in the field, making them potentially their precious time of the day without sacrificing overall productivity.

However, this is not exactly how things are happening for workers. In a world governed by a value above all the others – capitalism – this utopian dream is distorted by the incessant pursuit of profit. The AI AI disturbance on the labor market has already started, according to some experts, because technology is starting to completely reshape the way we consider work. Instead of helping people’s workload, companies that maximize productivity with artificial intelligence put people or slow down hiring to maximize profit, or ask for more existing workers.

This is not a coincidence, according to Gawdat, which believes that all technologies have already created existing human capacities and values, and the largest value of humanity is currently capitalism.

This disconnection between the expected consequences and the reality of the negative drawbacks has also echoed other technological progress.

“How often have social media connected to us and how frequency made us more? How often have mobile phones do less work to us? Said Gawdat.

“The evil that man can do”

Another thing that AI will degenerate beyond control, according to Gawdat, is “the evil that man can do”.

For those who follow the news in the past year, this is not a surprise. Deep pornographies generated by AI and the increased entry of AI into the war to maximize lethality with autonomous weapons and a generative AI in the army, technology has served as help in the worst that humanity has to offer.

It was in the midst of display this week when Elon Musk Grok’s chatbot unveiled a new image and video generation feature, the main use of which has so far generated women in very sexualized male fantasies.

Scams fueled by AI – and specifically crisp scams fueled by AI which are something that the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman himself, had warned – has made an arrows. A report by the Blockchain Intelligence Company, TRM Labs, revealed that cryptographic scams were up 456% in the past year thanks to AI Deepfake Technology. And nuclear war experts fear that AI can soon feed nuclear weapons.

AI is also to settle public surveillance methods on a massive scale. In a world where there is “a massive concentration of power”, as Gawdat says, it is a major concern. Public surveillance systems powered by AI are actively in place in many countries at the moment, the first example being the mass monitoring infrastructure in China. It is not only a foreign concern, the American government also uses AI to monitor the social media accounts of immigrants and travelers wishing to enter the country.

It’s not all bad, but there is work to do

Despite all this, AI continues to inaugurate remarkable changes for good. Artificial intelligence has already had a measurable impact on scientific discovery and progress, especially in medicine and pharmaceutical research.

Gawdat believes that a utopian use of AI is possible on the road thanks to progress like these.

But first, humanity has to face its traps.

“The situation as a whole is to put pressure on governments to understand that there is a limit to which people will remain silent,” said Gawdat, adding that governments should regulate the use of AI rather than AI itself.

“You cannot regulate the design of a hammer so that it can sink nails but do not kill anyone, but you can criminalize the murder of a human by a hammer,” said Gawdat.

The AI hammer is now in our hands, and it is there to stay. The only question that remains is whether we have the will to write the laws against murder.