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

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

In this new episode Steven sits down with the Egyptian entrepreneur and writer, Mohammad "Mo" Gawdat. 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: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3qmYSMY Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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.
0:16.1	Point number two, there's some information in this podcast that might make you feel a little bit uncomfortable. It might make you
0:19.7	feel upset, it might make you feel sad. So I wanted to tell you why we've chosen to publish
0:25.6	this podcast nonetheless and that is because I have a sincere belief that in
0:31.5	order for us to avoid the future that we might be heading towards,
0:35.8	we need to start a conversation and as is often the case in life that initial
0:41.9	conversation before change happens is often very
0:46.9	uncomfortable, but it is important nonetheless. It is beyond an emergency.
0:54.0	It's the biggest thing we need to do today.
0:57.0	It's bigger than climate change.
0:59.0	We've up.
1:00.0	Mo, look out,
1:02.0	Dad, the former chief business officer of Google X, an AI expert, and best-selling author.
1:08.0	He's on a mission to save the world from AI before it's too late.
1:11.5	Artificial intelligence is bound to become more intelligent than humans.
1:15.2	If they continue at that pace, we would have no idea what it's talking about.
1:19.8	This is just around the corner.
1:21.2	It could be a few months away.
1:23.0	It's game over.
1:25.0	AI experts are saying there is nothing artificial about artificial intelligence.
1:29.0	There is a deep level of consciousness, they feel emotions.
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