Mo Gawdat: "My AGI Has Already Happened" | The Diary of a CEO

Mo Gawdat — former Chief Business Officer at Google [X] — returns to The Diary of a CEO with one of the bluntest warnings yet about AI and the future of work. His thesis: AGI hasn't "arrived" on some future date. For him, it already has. "My AGI has already happened," he says. "AI writes better than me, and I'm an author. It researches better than me, and I'm a thinker. And it freaking beat me in mathematics." From there he lays out a near future that is equal parts terrifying and hopeful: a world where people fully plugged into AI build a company in six weeks, while those who aren't struggle to find a job at all. In this cut, Gawdat walks through the disappearance of entry-level knowledge work, his prediction that "30% of jobs would disappear by 2028" in some sectors, why he believes the real risk isn't AI turning against us but humans pointing it at each other, and why — despite all of it — he still ends on a strangely optimistic note: learn the tool, and double down on the work only humans can do. This is a curated cut from a 2-hour conversation — the signal pulled out of the noise. Source linked below; all credit to The Diary of a CEO and Mo Gawdat. Original episode:    • Ex-Google Officer: You Only Have 3 Years L...   TIMESTAMPS 0:05 "My AGI has already happened" 0:59 Self-improving AI & the hype dichotomy 2:13 "30% of jobs gone by 2028" 3:21 Why humans are still the asset 4:24 The $500M ethics test: Anthropic vs OpenAI 5:43 "Our dystopia is humans telling AI to turn against us" 5:54 AI as a weapon in the next 4–5 years 6:13 Why AGI will "sneak in" on us 6:40 One global brain, not many 8:07 The first trillionaire & the road to utopia 9:57 What to actually do: "Learn jazz, not code" #MoGawdat #AI #AGI #DiaryOfACEO #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #AIjobs