The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett EMERGENCY EPISODE: Ex-Google Officer Finally Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat
Jun 1, 2023
01:55:13
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
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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:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3qmYSMY
Follow me:
https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theexperienceplus.substack.com