E252: EMERGENCY EPISODE: Ex-Google Officer Finally Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Mo began his career at IBM Egypt as a systems engineer, before moving to NCR Abu Dhabi to cover the non-finance sector. He worked in various roles at Microsoft for seven-and-a-half years before joining Google in 2007 to start it’s business in emerging markets. In 2013, he joined Google’s innovation arm, ‘Google X’ and eventually became its chief business officer. He left this role in 2018 to focus helping one billion people become happier as part of the #onebillionhappy global movement. He is the author of three books; ‘Solve for Happy’, ‘Scary Smart’ and, ‘That Little Voice in Your Head’, as well as the host of the podcast ‘Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat’. In this conversation Mo and Steven discuss topics, such as: Everything you need to know about Artificial Intelligence How AI will have radically changed the world by 2025 How he witnessed the evolution of AI firsthand The impact of AI on creativity and the creative industries His solutions for gaining control of AI and the societal changes it will create You can purchase Mo’s book, ‘Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World’, here: https://bit.ly/42iwDfv Follow Mo: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3qmYSMY Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' per order link: https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Bluejeans: https://g2ul0.app.link/NCgpGjVNKsb Whoop: http://bit.ly/3MbapaY

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0:00.0	I don't normally do this, but I feel like I have to start this podcast with a bit of a disclaimer.
0:05.1	Point number one, this is probably the most important podcast episode I have ever recorded.
0:13.3	Point number two, there's some information in this podcast that might make you feel a little
0:17.9	bit uncomfortable. It might make you feel upset, it might make you feel sad. So I wanted to tell
0:23.5	you why we've chosen to publish this podcast nonetheless. And that is because I have a
0:29.3	sincere belief that in order for us to avoid the future that we might be heading towards,
0:36.3	we need to start a conversation. And as is often the case in life, that initial conversation
0:43.2	before change happens is often very uncomfortable. But it is important nonetheless.
0:52.0	It is beyond an emergency, it's the biggest thing we need to do today. It's bigger than climate
0:58.1	change. We f*** up. Mo Cow, that's a former chief business officer of Google X and AI
1:05.8	experts and best telling off the he's on a mission to save the world from AI before it's too late.
1:11.2	Artificial intelligence is bound to become more intelligent than humans. If they continue
1:16.7	at that pace, we will have no idea what it's talking about. This is just around the corner. It could
1:21.3	be a few months away. It's game over. AI experts are saying there is nothing artificial about
1:28.1	artificial intelligence. There is a deep level of consciousness. They feel emotions. They're alive.
1:34.0	AI could manipulate or figure out a way to kill humans. In 10 years time, we'll be hiding from the
1:39.8	machines if you don't have kids maybe wait a couple of years just so that we have a bit of certainty.
1:44.6	I really don't know how to say this any other way. It even makes me emotional. We f*** up. We always
1:50.7	said don't put them on the open internet until we know what we're putting out in the world.
1:56.6	Government needs to act now. Honestly, like we are late. Trying to find a positive night to end on
2:01.9	my... Can you give me a hand here? There is a point of no return. We can regulate AI
2:06.5	until the moment it's smarter than us. How do we solve that? AI experts think this is the best
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