Business Weekly: Scary Smart with Mo Gawdat

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Mo Gawdat was Chief Business Officer of Google X, the experimental development arm of the internet behemoth. He's since written books on how to find happiness and his new one, Scary Smart, warns of the potential dangers posed to the world by super-smart artificial intelligence. Media correspondent for the Sunday Times, Rosamund Urwin, speaks with Mo about the new book, the future of AI, and how business works at the top level of a Silicon Valley tech titan. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.0	Welcome to Intelligent Squared Business Weekly.
0:32.0	This week we're talking AI.
0:34.0	Here's Rosamondurwin with more.
0:36.0	Today we're joined by Mo Goudat, the Egyptian tech entrepreneur,
0:40.0	author and podcaster who is chief business officer at Google X.
0:45.0	That's the even more secretive bit of the Silicon Valley Titan.
0:48.0	Now called X development is dedicated to areas such as AI research
0:53.0	and so-called moonshot projects.
0:55.0	Mo left the company in 2018.
0:58.0	Most writing includes the book Sold for Happy, published in 2017,
1:03.0	which uses logic and equations to explain how we can lead more thinning lives.
1:07.0	And his most recent book, Scary Smart, has a rather more apocalyptic tone,
1:12.0	warning us of the possible dangers artificial intelligence poses to our well-being.
1:17.0	Mo says AI is putting humanity at risk.
1:21.0	He joins us now to tell us more. Welcome to Intelligent Squared Mo.
1:24.0	Thank you.
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