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

Explore episode May 4, 2026

The new Jesus Christ, if you will, are these tech CEOs. And here's what we fail to understand. They do not have our best interests at heart.

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Sam Altman and the Tech CEO as False Prophet

Scott Galloway: AI Wasn’t Built For You. The Rich Don’t Nee… · May 4, 2026 Technology

We have replaced religion with tech worship, and tech CEOs have become our new gods. But they are doing exactly what capitalism demands: maximising earnings, not saving humanity. The journey from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader just keeps getting shorter.

Here's what we fail to understand. These tech CEOs, they do not have our best interests at heart. They are not concerned with our emotional well-being. They are not going to comfort us when we're older. They are there, and they play a key component in capitalism, to do anything that is required to get their earnings up $0.01 per share every day.

Scott Galloway

Scott Galloway: AI Wasn’t Built For You…

The villain's journey in tech is the same. Some compelling person we think is a wonderful guy, and it's almost always a guy. We need to do better, gender balance. The journey from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader gets shorter and shorter.

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