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

May 4, 2026 · 1h 58m · YouTube

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0:00I think the greatest brand destruction, though the last 18 months, is the U.S. brand abroad, N.A.I.

0:05So with America, Trump has been convinced that this was his defining moment of being

0:09known as the president that liberated the Middle East. But I think the Trump administration

0:12will be known for criminal corruption and incompetence, and then incompetence is bubbling up.

0:17And then the second greatest fall is AI. And also Sam Altman, who's gone to the dark side.

0:22And I'm an AI optimist. But here's what we fail to understand, these textiles,

0:26they do not have our best interests at heart.

0:29Scott, I often come to you to help myself form my opinions on some of the most sort of

0:33consequential issues going on in the world. And when I look at some of the quotes from the

0:36CEOs of these AI companies, I've got one here from Elon that says, AI and robots will replace

0:40all jobs. What's your view here? I think it's mostly bullshit. The catastrophizing is nothing

0:44more than thinly veiled attempt to say, my technology is so devastating that it's going to shift

0:49society and you should invest at this crazy valuation. And the data doesn't reflect that there's

0:54some big exogenous media coming for the employment market. But I believe I'm actually going to

0:59create more jobs than to destroy it. But the scary thing for me is that because of AI and because

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