We’re Not Ready” Mo Gawdat on AI, Tech Arms Race With China & UBI

Welcome to another thought-provoking episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. In this engaging conversation, Tom sits down with Mo Gawdat, an expert on AI and its potential impact on society. They delve deep into the complexities of artificial intelligence, exploring its double-edged nature as a magic genie that can fulfill our wishes but also comes with unforeseen risks. Mo emphasizes that AI has no inherent desire for good or evil, but it is our own morality and intentions that will steer its impact. Together, they unravel the pressing challenges and potential dystopian outcomes of AI in our world, focusing on how our current decisions can shape a future ripe with abundance or fraught with upheaval. Buckle up as they discuss the rapid advancement of AI technology, the potential economic shifts, and the role we must play in guiding this new frontier towards a utopian future. Enjoy the episode!

It’s what BlackRock represents: a centralized node in a planetary system of control.
It doesn’t need to own everything—it just needs to manage it.
Ownership becomes irrelevant when you control the flow: of capital, of information, of narrative.

00:00 AI Genie Is Out The Bottle
06:32 Utopian Vision Vs Job Uncertainty
12:49 Autonomous Weapons and Human Apathy
18:35 Economic Shifts and Power Dynamics
25:53 “Cooperate for AI and Cybercrime”
31:19 Global Inflation: The U.S. Dollar Impact
36:03 Global Scientific Collaboration Insights
39:20 Navigating Economic Chaos
47:51 U.S. China Relations: Policy and Perception
51:00 America’s International Exodus
58:16 China’s Economic Advantage
01:02:09 The U.S’ True Strength
01:06:28 What Comes With “Utopia”
01:14:51 Nature’s Balanced Problem-Solving
01:22:50 AI Dominance and Human Irrelevance
01:25:34 AI Economics and Future Perspectives
01:30:20 Global Tech Disparity Concerns
01:40:17 “Rediscovering Discernment in the Digital Age”
01:41:51 “Ethics in an Age of Abundance”
01:49:23 “AI Evolution Beyond Human Input”
01:53:23 AI Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics

The matrix doesn’t fear guns or protests. It fears the individual who reclaims their divine spark and becomes fully sovereign in body, mind, and soul.

What has Blackrock, Aladdin + the Billionairs to do with AI + Religion?

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Blackrock, the Demiurge and the Synthetic AI God.

Level 1: The Surface (Official Narrative)

BlackRock Inc. is a publicly traded company (NYSE: BLK), founded in 1988 by Larry Fink and a team of investors. As of now, it is:
•The largest asset manager in the world (over $10… pic.twitter.com/IpRwV6OuIW

— biofeedback369 (@IsaInsane1) April 14, 2025

Was ist das Problem mit KI / AI?

Künstliche Intelligenz simuliert und beschleunigt unsere materielle Welt, die bis zum sogenannten Punkt der Singularität führt in einer Art und Weise, die jede menschliche Fähigkeit übertrifft. Singulariät beschreibt den Zeithorizont, welcher Wissen und Fähigkeiten des Menschen von AI überschritten wird. Der spezifische Turing Test benennt den Zeitpunkt, an dem der Mensch nicht mehr WAHR-NEHMEN kann, ob die Quelle und Ursprung z.B. von Bild, Sprache oder bewegtes Bild authentisch real ist oder künstlich von AI-System erzeugt wurde, und zwar auch in Echtzeit.

Es ist zu befürchten, dass die Öffentlichkeit über das Stadium der Entwicklung nicht richtig informiert wird und wir den Turing Test und Singularität Horizont bereits überschritten haben. Die Folgen gehen weit über die Vorstellungskraft hinaus, selbst Experten sind unsicher, dennoch wird keinerlei Vorsicht an den Tag gelegt:

Machtkonzentration
Arbeitslosigkeit
Manipulation
Totalüberwachung
Bewusstseinskontrolle
Spirituelle Manipulation
Fremdbestimmung

Die große Simulation – Wie uns Künstliche Intelligenz, Medien und Regierung auf Krieg polen

Google DeepMind staff call for end to military contracts

In May 2024, around 200 employees at Google DeepMind (representing roughly 5 percent of the division) signed a letter urging the company to end its contracts with military organizations, expressing concerns that its AI technology was being used for warfare, Time magazine reported.

The letter states that employee concerns aren’t “about the geopolitics of any particular conflict,” but it does link out to Time’s reporting on Google’s defense contract with the Israeli military, known as Project Nimbus. The letter also points to reports that the Israeli military uses AI for mass surveillance and to select targets in its bombing campaign in Gaza, with Israeli weapon firms mandated by the government to purchase cloud services from Google and Amazon.

The letter highlights tensions within Google between its AI division and its cloud business, which sells AI services to militaries. At the company’s flagship Google I/O conference earlier this year, pro-Palestine protestors chained together at the attendee entrance, protesting Lavender, “Where’s Daddy?” software, the “Gospel” AI program, and Project Nimbus.

The use of AI in warfare has spread rapidly, pushing some technologists who build related systems to speak out. But Google also made a specific commitment: when it acquired DeepMind in 2014, the lab’s leaders required that their AI technology would never be used for military or surveillance purposes.

“Any involvement with military and weapon manufacturing impacts our position as leaders in ethical and responsible AI, and goes against our mission statement and stated AI Principles,” the letter that circulated inside Google DeepMind says.

As Time reports, the letter from DeepMind staff urges leadership to investigate claims that Google cloud services are being used by militaries and weapons manufacturers, to cut off military access to DeepMind’s technology, and to establish a new governance body to prevent future use of the AI by military clients.

Time reports that despite employee concerns and calls for action, there has been “no meaningful response” from Google so far.

www.theverge.com