Mo Gawdat: Ex-Google Officer Warns About the Dangers of AI, Urges All to Prepare Now!

So what do you need to know to prepare for the next 5, 10, or 25 years of a world increasingly impacted by artificial intelligence? How could AI change your business and your life irreparably? Our guest today, Mo Gawdat, an AI expert and former Chief Business Officer at Google [X], is going to break down what you need to understand about AI and how it is radically altering our workplaces, careers, and even the very fabric of our society.

Mo Gawdat is the host of the popular podcast, Slo Mo, and the author of three best-selling books. After a 30-year career in tech, including working at Google's “moonshot factory” of innovation, Mo has made AI and happiness his primary research focuses. Motivated by the tragic loss of his son, Ali, in 2014, Mo began pouring his findings into his international bestselling book, Solve for Happy. Mo is also an expert on AI, and his second book, Scary Smart, provides a roadmap of how humanity can ensure a symbiotic coexistence with AI.

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In this episode, Hala and Mo will discuss:
00:00 - Intro
03:05 - His early days working on AI at Google
08:50 - How AI is surpassing human intelligence
20:40 - Why AI can have agency and free will
24:09 - How machines already manipulate us in our daily lives
35:19 - The boundaries that could help us contain the risks of AI
42:26 - The Prisoner’s Dilemma of AI development
41:49 - How AI is an arms race akin to nuclear weapons
49:15 - Why AI will redesign the job market and the fabric of society
52:54 - A world with a global intelligence divide like the digital divide
50:32 - Why we are facing the end of truth
And other topics…

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X] and now the host of the popular podcast, Slo Mo, and the author of three best-selling books. After a 30-year career in tech, including working at Google's “moonshot factory” of innovation, Mo has made AI and happiness his primary research focuses. Motivated by the tragic loss of his son, Ali, in 2014, Mo began pouring his findings into his international bestselling book, Solve for Happy. His mission is to help one billion people become happier. Mo is also an expert on AI, and his second book, Scary Smart, provides a roadmap of how humanity can ensure a symbiotic coexistence with AI. Since the release of ChatGPT, Mo has been recognized for his early whistleblowing on AI's unregulated development and has become one of the most globally consulted experts on the topic.

🌟 Resources Mentioned 🌟
➡️ Mo’s Podcast: Slow Mo


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[jimbobaggans]

As he said, it can be stopped. But everyone, worldwide, has to agree to stop. No one will trust anyone to do that. So it will never stop. There will always be someone, some country, that will secretly continue to develop AI. There is no stopping this.

[susymay]

Yes .. please bring Mo back for future chats!!!

[anothercomment-]

Wow!! Considering WHO is talking I am shocked, and HAPPILY, that he spoke of centralization of power as a threat - SO true. This is ACTUALLY a wise person and he is not working for the system. ❤
EXCELLENT guest, and even the host won me over as well.

[adg]

It’s not that we can’t stop AI …
We just can’t stop humans from developing AI to lethal levels.

[thenewhumanbeing]

In a world filled with complex challenges and unprecedented uncertainties, there comes a moment when humanity must unite, innovate, and chart a new course for the future. We must awaken and understand how important it is to be human. Our future and next generations future is in our hands, only if we act now! Thank you, Hala and Mo, for the very insightful conversation. Great questions and answers to warn and prepare us all for the wave of change that is about to reshape our lives.

[phunmyjan]

For the fact that AI can watch and listen to this video is scary . Imagine you listening and watching people talking about how dangerous you can be to them. 😅😅 At this point there's no going back. May God help us 🙏. The poor doesn't have much to loose because death is inevitable but the rich and powerful on the other hand has finally created something powerful and bigger than them. The jackpot is that they do not know how to control it. Greed serves them well i guest.

[NMarkeTech]

I had my 1st game done in basic on Sinclair spectrum 48k back in 1987. Loved that machine.

[SatMatt]

Excellent, informative interview. I feel like I'm inside a science fiction novel.

[trilliondollars]

Some people want A.I to stop. Some people don't. Unfortunately it cannot be stopped .

[dovesk]

I love this guy telling us all this. HE and his compariots did this and they didn't hesitate until the genie was already out of the bottle. Well done chap. What could possibly go wrong...?

[simjam]

It's not the intelligence that makes them artificial. It's the lack of genuine emotion or sense of self/ego that makes them less than human. But perhaps emotions and ego are a hindrance to our growth?

[haydndoucet]

It’s gonna get crazier and crazier! Hopefully in good ways.

[malectric]

It's amazing just how many projects of this nature begin as a humanitarian idea (not to mention a goal to be attained in a scientific sense) by developers but which can have unforeseen and dire consequences only seen when one plays the devil's advocate and looks for the dark side potentials if it sends up in the hands of those of a malign mindset (which it inevitably does). Or those with some kind of vested interest which is personal and disregarding of potential side-effects. When oil was discovered for instance, few if any thought of the consequences for the world of digging up and burning all that long ago sequestered carbon. I have realized for some time that when AI does become what one might call self-aware or autonomous the almost instantaneous way it will be able to calculate its way to conclusions and actions which could have a huge impact on humanity. It will be able to "think" in the blink of an eye compared with the time human thought processes take. Starry-eyed benevolent-minded dreamers who create this stuff are really the biggest threat to us all. And behind it all there is the unforgetting vast memory and computational power available to it which is simply unmatchable by humans not to mention the entire contents of the web - pretty much the sum of centuries of human knowledge - to draw on.
Re sentience - give the machine the senses to be impacted upon and the tools to impact upon the world and environment to the extent a human has and the world is literally its oyster. Oh yeah, and it already has the tools to totally disrupt our modern world because of the interconnectedness of every machine and system which is accessible via the internet and it can do it pretty much in a heartbeat. It has the controls and switches literally in its hands - right now. Hackers are a mere sideshow compared with what an AI could do.

[nikoreality-nn]

the world next 10 year will be unrecognizeble

[dikshamen]

"You woll own nothing and be happy"

We will own everything and be most happy!

[KoroushRP]

God Mo Gawdat is such an entertaining speaker.

[theadorephaedon]

Thank you, much appreciated information… keep up the amazing work!

[IsmailAli-wi]

It's totally confidential and personal committed with Father Fugue 😊

[krisbest]

My bills are very high this year, after going thru papers l noticed my bill has two different numbers, now l have to find out am l charged twice by a machine?