1382: Emad Mostaque | Surviving the Coming AI Jobs Apocalypse

**Digital feudalism or *Star Trek* at warp factor 9?** *The Last Economy* **author Emad Mostaque lays out the two futures toward which AI is racing us.** **Full show notes and resources can be found here:** jordanharbinger.com/1382 **What We Discuss with Emad Mostaque:** - **How AI's real disruption arrives long before it achieves sci-fi superintelligence.** Emad's test is whether a digital twin can do a standard white-collar job remotely, at the same level, with no one able to tell it from the human. At the time of this interview, his 1,000-day clock now reads 684. - **Why cost is the tipping point**: a humanoid robot renting near $1.50 an hour, digital workers replacing costly graduates, and AI that thinks roughly a thousand times faster, never sleeps, and won't repeat a mistake, out-competing any all-human firm. - **What happens when capital makes more capital without workers.** Wealth concentrates around whoever owns the GPUs and robots, abundance registers as catastrophe, and the likely responses — debt jubilees, UBI, or civil insurrection — reshape income and ownership. - **Why ownership may matter more than intelligence itself.** If the AI teaching kids, advising doctors, and interpreting law belongs to a government or a few unelected firms, digital feudalism looms, sharpened by super-persuader models that detect lies and steer choices. - **How to stay ahead: become AI-enabled now. Learn how these systems work, be the person bringing them into your organization, or use them to launch something of your own, while pushing for a future where people own intelligence aligned to human flourishing.** - And much more... And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here **— even one sentence helps!** - **Sign up for** Six-Minute Networking **— our free networking and relationship development mini course — at** jordanharbinger.com/course**!** - **Subscribe to our once-a-week** *Wee Bit Wiser* **newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!** - **Do you even Reddit, bro?** Join us at r/JordanHarbinger**!** **This Episode Is Brought To You By** Our Fine Sponsors**:** - **BetterHelp:** 10% off first month: betterhelp.com/jordan - **Boll & Branch:** 15% off first set of sheets: bollandbranch.com, code JORDAN - **EarnIn:** Download EarnIn on the App Store or Google Play, type JordanHarbinger under Podcast - **Progressive:** Free online quote: progressive.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.