Mo Gawdat on AI will create more jobs than it destro…

Mo Gawdat

Ex-Google X business chief, author

My belief is it is 100% crap, [...] The one thing they don’t think of is AI will replace them too,

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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AI Verified Article context shows that "it" refers to the notion that AI will create jobs; Fortune paraphrases Gawdat as saying that idea is "100% crap" and presents his remarks as a warning that AI will wipe out jobs and replace even CEOs. That makes the quote directly relevant to whether AI creates more jobs than it destroys and gives a determinable stance signal. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2025/08/06/ai-job-killer-ex-google-executive-mo-gawdat-warns-workers-ceos-politicians-replaced-robots/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified In context, “it” refers to the claim that AI will create jobs. The Fortune article presents Gawdat as rejecting that idea and warning that AI will replace workers, including CEOs, so he is opposing the statement that AI will create more jobs than it destroys. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2025/08/06/ai-job-killer-ex-google-executive-mo-gawdat-warns-workers-ceos-politicians-replaced-robots/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Verified. The Fortune article dated August 6, 2025 contains both quoted fragments and attributes them to Mo Gawdat: “My belief is it is 100% crap,” and later, “The one thing they don’t think of is AI will replace them too.” A transcript of the August 4, 2025 Diary of a CEO episode also shows those same lines at roughly 00:19:55 and 00:22:18, so the ellipsis is a faithful omission rather than a fabrication. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2025/08/06/ai-job-killer-ex-google-executive-mo-gawdat-warns-workers-ceos-politicians-replaced-robots/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

AI Verified Quote attributed to Mo Gawdat (2025) calling the idea of AI creating jobs "100% crap." Web search confirms this from Fortune (Aug 6, 2025) at the provided URL. Multiple sources (CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Windows Central) corroborate the exact phrases including "100% crap" and "the one thing they don't think of is AI will replace them too." Vote "against" is correctly aligned -- Gawdat explicitly rejects that AI will create new jobs and warns even CEOs will be replaced. Year 2025 is correct. Quote is relevant to statement 389. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 4mo ago

AI Unverifiable Source URL (Fortune) returned HTTP 403, blocking direct fetch. Web search confirms Mo Gawdat, former Google X chief business officer, said on the "Diary of a CEO" podcast (August 2025) that the idea AI will create jobs is "100% crap" and warned that "The one thing they don't think of is AI will replace them too." Confirmed by Fortune, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and Windows Central. Vote direction (against) is correct. Year (2025) and author attribution are correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 4mo ago

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