The Spooky Forecast of a Former Google Executive: A Creepy Age Approaches, Dominated by AI
Former commercial director of Google’s famous “moonshot factory” has raised all the alarms with a prediction that mixes internal experience and hints of apocalyptic warning. According to him, starting in 2027, not because of conscious machines, but because of the way we ourselves will use them.
## A countdown to an unprecedented scenario
He, who had access to projects of artificial intelligence in very early stages and confidential information, assures that soon we will experience a “major disruption” in fundamental values such as freedom, human connection, responsibility, reality, and power. During his time at Google, he made it clear that it is not a threat arising from autonomous technological whims. AI, he said, “is not inherently bad,” but it will serve as an amplifier of “our human stupidity.”
What is worrisome is his precision: he sets 2027 as the beginning of a 12 to 15-year period in which AI could be used for harmful purposes, from reinforcing mass surveillance, through mass automated layoffs or perfected scams.
## The problem is not in the machine, but in who wields it
Gawdat uses a clear image: , when what should be criminalized is its use for homicide. For him, laws should focus on specific uses, not on hindering technological innovation. Surveillance, military applications, or informational manipulation are examples where ethical and legal lines should be strengthened.
However, he even acknowledges that many of these dangers are already covered by existing laws, especially in Europe, which hints at a larger problem: sometimes, it is the state itself that drives questionable practices with the .
## A warning we should not ignore
History is full of voices that, after leaving key positions in large corporations, . In this case, the message does not come from an external observer, but from someone who was at the core of one of the leading companies in generative AI.
If he is right, in just two years we will be on the threshold of a decisive stage that will test not only the capacity of machines but our own collective ethics. The time to prepare—and legislate intelligently—seems to be running faster than we think.
