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Left to right: Craig Mundie, Ramana Kumar, Camille Stewart GlosterBusiness Insider<\/p>\n
Former AI insiders highlight AI’s potential to transform jobs, research, healthcare, and more.<\/p>\n
They also warn that AI competition is increasing risk and they call for stronger safety measures.<\/p>\n
“The technologies are oftentimes neutral. It’s what people do with them that makes the difference,” Craig Mundie said.<\/p>\n
Craig Mundie<\/a>, a former Microsoft executive, said artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool \u2014 it’s becoming something closer to an independent intelligence, with consequences that could reshape society.<\/p>\n Across a series of interviews with Business Insider, Mundie and four other former leaders from OpenAI<\/a>, Google, DeepMind, and the White House described a future where AI systems grow more capable, more autonomous, and harder to control.<\/p>\n Their warnings converge on the idea that this technology is advancing faster<\/a> than society can manage it.<\/p>\n Craig Mundie is an ex-Microsoft exec and runs a firm, Mundie & Associates, that advises organizations on AI and more.Craig Mundie and Mundie & Associates<\/p>\n Within the coming years, they said, AI could transform labor markets, concentrate power, and introduce new risks \u2014 from cyberattacks to autonomous weapons \u2014 while also offering breakthroughs in medicine and education.<\/p>\n Ultimately, the outcome \u2014 for better or worse \u2014 depends on how humans choose to deploy<\/a> it, they say.<\/p>\n Jobs could disappear faster than systems can adapt<\/p>\n Mo Gawdat<\/a>, a former chief business officer at Google, said AI could replace jobs in less than five years, starting with intellectual work and eventually extending to physical labor.<\/p>\n “You will have AI’s agency in the real world, where they actually can carry things and move things and replace every job<\/a>,” Gawdat said. “The intellectual jobs and then the blue-collar jobs.”<\/p>\n Mo Gawdat is a former chief business officer at Google X and currently advises on AI development and human happiness.Business Insider<\/p>\n Camille Stewart Gloster, who served as the White House deputy national cyber director from 2022 to 2024, said companies are already restructuring work. Tasks like early research and document review are shrinking, reshaping what entry-level roles<\/a> look like.<\/p>\n She described the labor market shifting<\/a> from a pyramid shape with many entry-level roles to a diamond shape with more roles concentrated in the middle tiers.<\/p>\n That transition could leave workers behind. Stewart Gloster said some companies are cutting jobs before understanding what skills they will need next, calling the move premature.<\/p>\n Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher, said the shift may not be gradual. Instead, AI systems could “come smashing through all at once,” automating large parts of the economy in a short period.<\/p>\n A powerful technology with few guardrails Ramana Kumar is a former DeepMind research scientist.Business Insider<\/p>\n Ramana Kumar, a former DeepMind<\/a> research scientist, said modern AI systems are designed to be convincing, not necessarily truthful. That makes them useful, but also risky.<\/p>\n Kokotajlo added that even today’s systems lack reliable controls<\/a>, noting they can produce misleading information despite being trained not to.<\/p>\n The concern grows as systems gain autonomy.<\/p>\n Future AI could integrate vast amounts of information in ways humans cannot, giving it a unique advantage in solving complex problems, Mundie said.<\/p>\n Daniel Kokotajlo is a former OpenAI researcher who is now the executive director of the AI Futures Project.Business Insider<\/p>\n That capability could unlock major advances<\/a>. Mundie pointed to healthcare as one of the most immediate areas of impact, where AI could determine the root cause of diseases by analyzing entire systems of the human body rather than narrow specialties.<\/p>\n “You don’t have to ask the same question to 10 specialists,” Mundie said. “The machine does that for you.”<\/p>\n Still, the same power creates new vulnerabilities. Stewart Gloster warned that generative AI<\/a> can scale cyber threats, making phishing attacks more convincing and easier to produce.<\/p>\n “They can also use generative AI to find out a lot about you and really tailor their communications very quickly to cause you harm and to get information from you,” Steward Gloster said.<\/p>\n The race to build smarter AI is accelerating risk Camille Stewart Gloster is the former White House deputy national cyber director and is now the CEO and Principal of CAS Strategies, LLC.Business Insider<\/p>\n Several experts pointed to competition between companies and countries as a key driver of risk.<\/p>\n AI labs and governments are racing to build more powerful systems quickly, which could lead to widespread deployment of superintelligent AI before safety measures are in place, Kokotajlo said.<\/p>\n “I think that this race pressure will cause the leaders of these countries and the leaders of these companies to aggressively deploy their superintelligences into the economy and also into the military,” he said.<\/p>\n![\"Professional](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a7c7eef4b150eec8d04c05acae337ce1.jpeg\"\/)
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