Levi Predicts the Next 10 Years Will Be Dystopian Before Society Resets
Zachary Levi · What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale · Sep 25, 2025 · at 57:27
Actor and entrepreneur Zachary Levi discusses his long-term outlook for society and technological disruption with host Joe Lonsdale on American Optimist.
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“So, I do think that we are headed toward the next 10 years, whatever this next season of life is gonna be, this new world, this brave new world, as Huxley would say that is going to be quite dystopian. However, I think that that will be, I'm believing, I'm optimistic that that will be the great I don't, not the great reset, or whatever somebody wants to define that as, but a reset of sorts. It will be an equalizer. It will be an awakening. It will be something where there will be so many people that are going to struggle through this, that we will all be forced to have to find solutions that we did not want to find, or think we needed to find prior to this.”
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