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Scary Smart
Mo Gawdat ISBN 1529077621
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Mo Gawdat ISBN 1529077621
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This book by Mo Gawdat has come up 5 times on Diary of a CEO. The people who brought it up: Mo Gawdat, Steven Bartlett. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-10-11 and the most recent from 2026-06-01. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“I spoke to you, I think about four years ago when you wrote a book about happiness and I remember you came in, you'd written this book about AI”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Mo Gawdat: Former Chief Business Officer at Google X, author of Solve for Happy and Scary Smart, and founder of AI startup Emma. He's been warning about AI's societal impact since long before ChatGPT made it mainstream. Ex-Google AI exec Mo Gawdat warns of a coming decade of dystopia from AI-driven job loss, autonomous weapons and broken democracy, before an eventual utopia.
“we sat here and discussed AI. We discussed your book, Scary, Smart, and everything that was happening in the world”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Mo Gawdat: Former chief business officer at Google X and bestselling author of Scary Smart, now one of the most urgent voices on AI. He builds AI startups and writes/speaks about happiness, AI safety, and the future of humanity. Mo Gawdat warns of a 12-to-15-year AI-driven dystopia before a possible utopia, arguing only mindset stands between the two.
“Your book is called Scary Smart. If I think about that story you said about your time at Google”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Mo Gawdat: Former chief business officer of Google X, AI expert and best-selling author of Scary Smart, on a mission to warn the world about the dangers of AI. Former Google X exec Mo Gawdat warns AI's existential dangers are imminent and argues humanity, not machines, is the real threat.
“when i wrote scary scarysmart and you know scarysmart was entirely about technology and where technology is going”— Mo Gawdat
The guest here is Mo Gawdat: Former Chief Business Officer of Google X, happiness author of Solve for Happy and Scary Smart, and founder of the One Billion Happy mission, whose son Ali died in 2014. Mo Gawdat returns to explain how thoughts shape happiness, why your brain can be rewired, and the economics of love.
“Now, Scary Smart is written in a very unusual way, because it's not a book about artificial intelligence only.”— Mo Gawdat
The guest here is Mo Gawdat: Former Chief Business Officer of Google X, happiness author (Solve for Happy), and AI thinker (Scary Smart) who founded the One Billion Happy movement after losing his son Ali. Former Google X exec Mo Gawdat shares his happiness equation, processing his son's death, and an urgent warning about AI.
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