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

Mo is back, and this is honestly a conversation not to be missed. Please share and like it as it will help this conversation reach so many more people. Hope you all enjoy it. Appreciate you all 🙏🏽

It's not more intelligence that we need, it's wisdom and compassion.

"We have disconnected power from responsibility". The statement of the decade.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ― Albert Einstein

Mo, you are a beautiful human. The world needs more of you, with your wisdom and your comparison.

We've basically already given up on human connection. Social media has replaced campfire conversations, texting has replaced phone calls, and phone calls replaced house visits. People are awkward around one another and have severe anxiety in most social situations. We are already losing the ability to interact with one another, this is honestly the next step in the evolution of humans and it is absolutely terrifying. We're already there and we don't even see it. Our phones are our best friends. It's tragic

I'm a kindergarten teacher and I have worked with quite a few highly intelligent children. They have one thing in common - they are developed cognitively far beyond their years, but emotionally and socially they are still just little kids. The result is, they tend to feel invincible because they can do so much more than their peers, but are still too immature to be able to predict the consequences of their own actions or exert self control. As a result, they often end up in situations where they get overwhelmed by their own capability. It seems when it comes to developing AIs we are kind of at this stage - very smart kids without an adult, capable of understanding how things work and how to make things that work, but without enough awareness of experience to be able to predict the consequences. Or at least we were at this stage - it seems we are now becoming more aware of the impact of our actions on our surroundings. There is a lot of inertia in the system, though. It will take powerful countervectors to change the course we're currently at. Thanks for the talk, it was very thought inspiring and empowering. I will now go and think what I can do to help bring about the needed change.

"The biggest threat facing humanity is humanity in the age of the machines". Very insightful and intelligent interview! Cheers!

"People will give up on nature"..this is the beginning of the end... The good thing for me is that out of this disconnection I will be seeking others that like me will want to move closer to our true selves. Humans will be divided in two sectors : those that will give up on themselves and those that will choose to reconnect to themselves more fiercely because we cannot abandon our humanity. I thought I was going to feel hopeless after listening to this chat, it has instead left me hopeful, that even in potentially darkest days I,as a human being still OWN my humanity, and that is something no corrupt government, greedy corporation or AI slave thingie can take away from me..

Once lawyers and politicians figure out that they can be replaced and superseded by AI, they’ll put the brakes on! 😂

" Humanity's stupidity is affecting people who have not done anything wrong. Our greed is affecting the innocent ones." Soooo accurate!!! People' ignorance is unbelievable.

I love your shows. This is truly time well spent. I never regret my time watching all the variety of guest you have. Information and knowledge that is like rilpia bandage off is necessary and so important. It's necessary! Truth is necessary regardless of how painful or scary it is. Let us have a choice in our future. We are not children and the politicians have done a horrible job deciding for us.

Thank you for this insightful interview. Deep diving in to the philosophical, ethical, humanitarian and technological impacts and consequences of progress in Artificial Intelligence the way you did, definitely enhance the awareness of the challenges that the world is about to face. My favorite part is when he highlighted the Oppenheimer problematic: “If you stop, someone else is probably going to do it”. Humans greed vs humanity.. Like Studs Terkel once said: “hope dies last” - we expect the best but should better be prepared for the worst..😢

I am an antique and vintage dealer, I’ve never liked my career more than now, in a digital world. Old, hand crafted things give me a sense of calm 😌

People that are living paycheck to paycheck cannot afford to care about existential crises affecting humanity at large because they're living in their own existential crisis already. That comes first every time.

i can't help but think that the principles of peace and love from the flower children of the 1960s are returning to the forefront of things we should care about in society. "Make love not war" ☮✌

Seriously one of best interviews I’ve seen online. When the question about his deceased son was asked, I felt like I was in the room. The emotion was heavy and enlightening.

Mo (43:00): "We have given too much power to people that didn't assume responsibility." So true.

We don't come for just the knowledge, but for the interaction and conversation between two people, which is far deeper then just sharing knowledge.

This was an amazing discussion. Thank you both! Earned a subscription.