Founder and CEO, Stability Ai
Search every verified Emad Mostaque interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and author of *The Last Economy*, has been giving interviews in which he argues that artificial intelligence will fundamentally reshape society within decades. He has stated that democracy is "in its final decade or two" and that countries will eventually be run by AI. Mostaque described the probability of human extinction or a period of "infinite abundance" as a "coin toss." He also said that AI is becoming more persuasive than humans and will outcompete people in markets and physical labor. Mostaque has discussed the concentration of power among a few AI companies and governments, citing the temporary removal of a model called Fable at the behest of the U.S. government as an example. He predicted that intelligence above a basic level will be "rationed" and that users may need to "convince an AI that you're patriotic in order to get an AI license." He also commented on the release of the Kimi K3 model, calling it an "AI Sputnik moment" and suggesting the U.S. government would pursue a strategy of constraining Chinese open models. Mostaque has advocated for an open-source AI governance system called "Sage" for policymakers, stating that all policy will eventually be assisted or made by AI.
“I think either we'll be wiped out as a species and this is the great filter through which every species reaches. Or we have a period of infinite abundance. I think it's a coin toss right now.”
“Democracy as we know it will come to an end cuz the AI is more persuasive than us, either used or self-motivated. It will outcompete us in markets because digitally it can create twins of everyone and outcompete and then physically with robots.”
“We've had this mantra in the internet world that information wants to be free. Basically, intelligence also wants to be free.”
“I think the US government starts a strategy of constraining in some fashion Chinese open models from being used in the US.”
“I think democracy is basically in its final decade or two.”
“The only thing that can stop a bad AI is a good AI. I think it's a coin toss right now.”
“We've never had anyone on our side. Again, those listening to this, do you really have any institutions that you think are 100% on your side and care about you? No. And that's kind of a really sad thing as a society, right? From multinational down like maybe the people in your church care about you or maybe your family...”
“I think probably the biggest thing full stop that will do this is you know something we've been working on which is an open-source AI system we call it Sage the sovereign AI governance engine for policy makers globally because all policy will be assisted by AI and then to be honest probably made by AI and it should be...”
“If the government is running the AI, they will use it for full totalitarian control. Governments are the entities with a monopoly on political violence. And if you gave the government full control of an AI, you probably wouldn't have elections again.”
“The value of human cognitive labor is about to negative. This is the last point at which humans have any advantage in the private sector and free market.”
“You'll have these replica bots, whereby when you push a button, it creates a digital double of everyone in your organization. They never make a mistake, they never sleep, and they cost a thousand dollars a year. That is incredibly disempowering.”
“OpenAI's latest industrial policy proposal for the transition... if you have a sovereign wealth fund for AI and you're a minority shareholder, they get all the political power then. They get more and more of the economy and it serves them. They become too big to fail and they're unelected.”
“The meaning of life isn't work. It's community, I think.”
“The models are going to get as good as we are in just about any single task. They're going to saturate the benchmarks and then massive economic social displacement and then we might all die as well. You know, the P doom that I have is like 50%. So, it's like, let's build an infrastructure to address that.”
“We're going to see a massive stimulus program as jobs start to get displaced and you'll be a 1929 style New Deal. Like build loads of infrastructure. It's not like our infrastructure is gray. Our infrastructure is kind of crap, right? So, we might as well upgrade it all.”
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Emad Mostaque — co-founder and former CEO of Stability AI, now founder of Intelligent Internet and author of The Last Economy — joins Sachi Kamiya on Open Commons to unpack why he walked away from one of the most prolific open source AI companies, what the next two years actually decide, and what it looks like to give every human their own sovereign AI. 00:00 — Cold open 00:12 — Sachi's intro 00:33 — Hook clips 01:48 — Why he walked away from Stability AI 03:32 — The biggest lesson he's applying at Intelligent Internet 06:03 — The culture driving the AGI race 08:06 — Is AGI already here? Why…
Emad Mostaque co-founded Stability AI, open-sourced Stable Diffusion to 300 million downloads, and then quit because he saw what was coming. His P(Doom) (the probability that AI ends civilization) is 50%... And he's building anyway. In this episode of /brainpower, Bowen and David sit down with Emad, now the Founder of Intelligent Internet (ii.inc), for one of the most intellectually dense and wide-ranging conversations we've ever had on the show. We go from first principles physics to sovereign AI infrastructure to why OpenAI and Anthropic might be in serious economic trouble within two years…
Emad Mostaque — founder of Stability AI and creator of Stable Diffusion, now building Intelligent Internet — joins RenderCon 2026 to map the road from today's generative models to the Holodeck. In this talk, Emad breaks down how diffusion models actually work, why flow matching unlocked the current generation of image and video breakthroughs, and how world models are beginning to approximate real physics — from sugar cubes dissolving to ships sinking — without ever being explicitly programmed to do so. He traces the arc from Stable Diffusion's first release to open-source world models you can…
Emad Mostaque helped kick off the modern AI revolution as the head of Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion. Unlike most AI CEOs, he doesn't sugarcoat the risks of AGI development. He explains his 50% P(Doom), why we have less than 1,000 days to get our act together, and how his new startup, Intelligent Internet, aims to be a countervailing force against doom of all kinds. 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:00:39 — Introducing Emad Mostaque 00:02:08 — How Emad Got Involved in AI Development 00:05:46 — The 60-Second Pitch for Intelligent Internet 00:09:29 — What's Your P(Doom)?™ 00:13:32 — Wh…
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