“The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven” is the title of a recent "Diary of a CEO" episode featuring Google’s former Chief Business Officer, Mo Gawdat. An intriguing, if not unsettling, title for a conversation covering what we can expect over the forthcoming years of AI development.
True to his word, Gawdat lists a number of significant threats that may lie on the horizon: the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI) within the next couple of years, which paired with rapid advancements in robotics, could bring an end to the vast majority of jobs; and the radical concentration of power dictated by whoever reaches AGI first. All this, Gawdat suggests, will likely result in 15 years of dystopia as human leaders seek to bend this newfound power to their will. More war. More suffering. More chaos.
