India, Aug. 6 -- Mo Gawdat, a former Chief Business Officer at Google X, has issued a stark warning about the future of artificial intelligence (AI), predicting that the rapid development of AI could eliminate most human jobs within the next 15 years, with the middle class bearing the brunt of the fallout.

Speaking on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Gawdat cautioned that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a future version of AI with the capacity to perform any intellectual task a human can, will outpace humans in nearly every job role, including those previously thought to be secure such as programmers, executives, and content creators.

"Unless you're in the top 0.1%, you're a peasant," Gawdat said. "AGI will be better at everything tha...