Tom Chi has played many roles inside and outside the tech industry, including serving as head of Google X, where he helped develop Google Glass and self-driving cars. Now a founding partner at the environmentally focused venture capital firm At One Ventures, Chi has published a book, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future. The book offers dark warnings about the possible future of humans on Earth amid threefold crises in the environment, the AI economy, and geopolitics and also proposes a framework for change.In this wide-ranging and provocative interview, Chi puts forth his opinions on why a world in which billionaires are building doomsday bunkers is one in which no one is really winning, and how that would could be re-imagined.Featuring: Tom Chi, founding partner, At One VenturesIn today's episode, we'll cover…White collar jobs and AIDemand as a check on corporate powerConnections between climate change, AI's impact and political unrestChi's proposed skills to address these challenges: critical thinking, creativity, compassion, and community.References: Potential Salesforce pricing reset latest sign of 'SaaSpocalypse'AI job losses: Transformation expected, not mass layoffs Half of Google's software development now AI-generatedTo learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations.To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.