Scott Galloway: AI Wasn’t Built For You. The Rich Don’t Need You Anymore!

I think the greatest brand destruction over the last eighteen months is the US brand abroad in AI. So with America, Trump has been convinced that this was his defining moment of being known as the president that liberated the Middle East. But I think the Trump administration will be known for criminal corruption and incompetence, and that incompetence is bubbling up. And then the second greatest fall is AI. And also Sam Allman, who's gone to the dark side. And I'm an AI optimist. Well, here's what we fail to understand, these text deals. They do not have our best interests at heart. Scott. I often come to you to help myself form my opinions on some of the most sort of consequential issues going on in the world. And when I look at some of the quotes from the COs of these AI companies, I've got one here from Elon that says AI and robots will replace all jobs. What's your view here? I think it's mostly bullshit. The catastrophizing is nothing more than thinly veiled attempt to say my technology is so devastating that it's gonna sh Shift society and you should invest at this crazy valuation. And the data doesn't reflect that there's some big exogenous media coming for the employment market. But I believe it's actually gonna create more jobs than it destroys. But the scary thing for me is that because of AI and because of these frictionless relationships that people are engaging in online, I think a lot of young people are losing the

Ability to endure rejection. But I think a more important technology in terms of how it's going to change the world and what will create more shareholder value is not AI. It's Really? Guys, I've got a favor to ask before this episode begins. The algorithm, if you follow a show, will deliver you the best episodes from that show very prominently in your feed. So when we have our best episodes on this show The most shared episodes, the most rated episodes. I would love you to know. And the simple way for you to know that is to hit that follow button. But also it's the simple easy free thing that you can do to help us make this show better. And I would be hugely grateful if you could take a minute on the app you're listening to this one right now and hit that follow button. Thank you so, so so much.

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