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'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

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

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!

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.

" 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.

Once lawyers and politicians figure out that they can be replaced and superseded by AI, they’ll put the brakes on!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

Man, another thought provoking Diary and I stumbled on this channel. Love the quote: " We have disconnected the Responsibility from the Power". My takeaway: AI itself is not the problem, but the fact that it is learning from the worst of us is.

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.

Excellent Analysis, Deployed Worldwide Through My Deep Learning AI Research Library… Thank You.

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.

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

An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself they said: “UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?” ‘UBUNTU’ in the Xhosa culture means: “I am because we are” -Cheers

I feel a sense of compassion and love for this man whom I've never met. And I would love to get to speak with him. What a beautiful soul and obviously he's spent a lot of time thinking about his place in the world and to me that is so important that all of us do that. Great work Steven.