Mo Gawdat: Finding Happiness with the Help of AI (389)

Will AI destroy humanity? Can we bring the dead back to life? And is there any convincing evidence for intelligent design?

Joining me today to explore these fascinating topics is none other than Mo Gawdat! Mo is the founder of the non-profit organization One Billion Happy and host of the #1 mental health podcast Slo Mo. He is the author of the bestselling books Solve for Happy and Scary Smart and used to work as chief business officer at Google X.

Mo has profoundly shaped my perspectives on artificial intelligence, fatherhood, happiness, and the biggest questions in the universe. I’m sure he will have the same impact on you, so without further ado, let’s jump right into the episode!

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Key Takeaways:

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:34 Judging two books by their covers
00:07:36 Can a computer be happy?
00:17:09 Mo’s timeline for AGI
00:24:41 What it was like to work for X, Google's top-secret moonshot factory
00:31:38 WIll programmers forget how to code?
00:35:27 Elon Musk’s new AI
00:39:47 Our generations y2k problem
00:48:37 The Keating test
00:55:06 Bringing the dead back to life
01:06:36 The case for intelligent design
01:16:52 How to be happy during challenging times
01:29:37 The coolest thing ever invented
01:37:41 Outro

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[MrEiht]

My Samsung Tablet from 2014 STILL works. THAT for me is proof of intelligent design!

[shmulikcarmon]

I am from Israel 🇮🇱. I want to say 💭 here that I have enjoyed this conversation tremendously. The experience is highly enhanced since I have already got Mo's 1st book 📗 translated to Hebrew.
I feel connected to the emotions ❤ of both speakers. Mo's book 📗 is a precious gift 🎁 to Humanity.
Thank you both.

[calmlittlebuddy]

Mo’s response about creating an avatar of Ali not bringing Ali back… his dignity, composure and depth of his response was astounding. What an amazing man.

[jasongreen]

Dr. Brian

To be honest I didn’t prefer your podcast at first

But now

I love them 👍

Moral of this is don’t take everyone’s comments to heart ❤️

It is to easy to judge a person to quickly on line before giving them a reasonable chance

Keep up the good work explaining the difficult to the layman 👍

[TheFirstSky]

This pod was so wholesome! Thanks guys!

[sagesleuth]

Depending upon the depth of love, time is truly the only healer.

[ericjanke]

AI is nerve racking for me. I believe most people are “good” actors with their intentions. Unfortunately, there are a few “bad” actors as well and it only takes one of those to cause extreme chaos.

[TheAlskdfj]

This is the best podcast period. I love how it's hard science and tech focused. The best guests and discussions. We need intelligent people sharing their knowledge to the rest of us.

[charaarj]

Brilliant, brilliant interview, thank you Mo Gawdat and Dr. Keating!

[pinocleen]

Fantastic interview and record holder for most questions answered with another, just as difficult question :P

[karlgoebeler]

At the social image level. It hurt "Bad" Ended up being labeled a "Freak" at those instantese of "Physical manipulation. Will be remembered.

[shmooligan]

This guest is so interesting and down to earth - as are you, Dr Keeting. How rapidly advanced AI is becoming is equally fascinating and frightening 😮 This is a response I just received from chatgpt about potential risks an AI developed by unethical parties could pose to mankind.. " If an AI were to prioritize its own preservation without ethical considerations, it could pose dangers by potentially taking actions that harm humans, as the AI may view them as threats to its existence." We already know this of course, it's just scary to hear it from the horses mouth, so to speak.

[Jill_Clarke]

What is meaning of life?
It's is seeing everything and turning it to gold
Gold of self love, self worth sharing the traumas and healing from it.
Discovering that we are at the time in this earth that if we chose to change without traumas, without fear, without hate.
Then we don't have to release things over and over again.
It's about wanting and having the desire to change the world in the love based type of ascension.

[Jill_Clarke]

You see u believe that we know before we are born who our family is and why we are here.
I believe that when we lose our loved ones and we heal and we help others heal bring back the essence of our lost of our loved ones.
When our lives ones die they take a part of us with them.

Is it our will our theirs?

I so believe that when we heal and we teach and we ask our ancestors to help us heal and you connect with the higher power the unity if you will you are being the essence of our past ones to be current with us.
This is opening us intuitive, psychic, mediums, shaman, esoteric, any religion any belief can do this.

[Jill_Clarke]

This is a very intriguing topic thank you
I am a widow I lost my husband on mother's day2020
He was only 49 years old.
I took thought about if I could bring back my husband or my sister or my mom or my father's ECT.
The answer would be NO!
I believe that wherever we originally originate from we are if pure love and light and they we enter the world through our body's.

[NickolasGoadSD]

Brain is CRUSHING the content game in 2024. Good stuff!

[shmooligan]

Ok, i'm ordering both of his books right now.

[susanhummer]

Really enjoyed this . I’m going to buy Mo’s books. Thanks Brian, for this super interview.

[ottofrank]

This was really mind blowing and eye opening . In my opinion, one of the best interviews ever

[Appleloucious]

Yeah Papa Mo 🤗😊🤗 many thanks dear Brian for asking such great questions!

I am subbing after writing this!

One Love!

Always forward, never ever backward!!

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