Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
What does AI mean for the future of work and society? In this conversation, Mustafa Suleyman and Ian Bremmer discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping our world and populating it with myriad “digital people.”
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, joins political scientist Ian Bremmer to discuss the extraordinary pace of AI development, its economic and social implications, and how humanity should adapt. Looking beyond the (maybe obsolete) Turing Test to the creation of emotionally intelligent AI assistants, this video explores the promises and perils of our AI-driven future.
Highlights include:
- Why AI's recent breakthroughs feel like a technological tipping point
- “Digital people” and how they’ll change our daily lives
- How AI could disrupt jobs, and what skills will stay valuable
- Corporate ethics and the risks of open-source AI
- Whether AI could eventually eliminate the need for most work
- A hopeful vision for creativity and community in a ubiquitous-AI society
Watch the other videos in MRU’s AI Mindset series:
Part 1 - 200 Years of Tech Panics: From Bicycles to AI youtube.com/watch?v=7-RzQxuBsQ0
Part 2 - Pedal to the Metal: The Possibility Mindset youtube.com/watch?v=RuLHKnHn3dY
Part 3 - When Photography “Killed” Painting youtube.com/watch?v=fPF6QFCVxGI&t=2s
More MRU resources on learning with AI: mru.io/gs4
This video was produced in partnership with the Institute for Global Affairs (instituteforglobalaffairs.org/), a nonprofit research organization that works to increase awareness and understanding of geopolitics and global affairs.
What does AI mean for the future of work and society? In this conversation, Mustafa Suleyman and Ian Bremmer discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping our world and populating it with myriad “digital people.”
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, joins political scientist Ian Bremmer to discuss the extraordinary pace of AI development, its economic and social implications, and how humanity should adapt. Looking beyond the (maybe obsolete) Turing Test to the creation of emotionally intelligent AI assistants, this video explores the promises and perils of our AI-driven future.
Highlights include:
- Why AI's recent breakthroughs feel like a technological tipping point
- “Digital people” and how they’ll change our daily lives
- How AI could disrupt jobs, and what skills will stay valuable
- Corporate ethics and the risks of open-source AI
- Whether AI could eventually eliminate the need for most work
- A hopeful vision for creativity and community in a ubiquitous-AI society
Watch the other videos in MRU’s AI Mindset series:
Part 1 - 200 Years of Tech Panics: From Bicycles to AI youtube.com/watch?v=7-RzQxuBsQ0
Part 2 - Pedal to the Metal: The Possibility Mindset youtube.com/watch?v=RuLHKnHn3dY
Part 3 - When Photography “Killed” Painting youtube.com/watch?v=fPF6QFCVxGI&t=2s
More MRU resources on learning with AI: mru.io/gs4
This video was produced in partnership with the Institute for Global Affairs (instituteforglobalaffairs.org/), a nonprofit research organization that works to increase awareness and understanding of geopolitics and global affairs.
