Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2023-06-01
Books mentioned on EMERGENCY EPISODE: Ex-Google Officer Finally Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat
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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Solve for happy
Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat is a reflective non-fiction book that presents a mathematical equation for human happiness based on the relationship between expectations and life events.
Discussed“One of them was a you know, what what we spoke about the first time we met, you know, my work on happiness and you know, being 1 billion happy and my mission and so on. That's my second life.”
Where to get it
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That Little Voice in Your Head
That Little Voice in Your Head by Mo Gawdat offers practical strategies and psychological insights for retraining the human brain to achieve maximum happiness and emotional stability.
Discussed“when when I write for example, I'm not I'm not saying I'm intelligent, but when I write uh something like uh you know, The Happiness Equation uh in in my first book, this was something that's never been written before, right?”
Where to get it
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Scary Smart
Scary Smart by Mo Gawdat is a thought-provoking book written by a former Google executive that outlines the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and warns that the next few decades will present profound challenges for humanity before we can navigate safely.
Discussed“last time you came here, um it was in the sort of promotional tour of your book, Scary Smart.”
Where to get it
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Die wise
Die wise by Stephen Jenkinson is a profound philosophical exploration of mortality, grief, and how society's avoidance of death diminishes the human experience.
Recommended“He's you know, he worked 30 years with dying people. He wrote a book called Die Wise and I was I love his work and I asked him about Die Wise and he said it's not just someone dying.”
Where to get it
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“So, scary smart to me uh was that moment where I realized not that we are certain to go either way.”