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Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat is an Egyptian software engineer, entrepreneur, author, podcaster, and public speaker. He previously served as chief business officer for Google X and is the author of several bestselling books on happiness and AI. He hosts the podcast 'Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat'.

Chief AI Officer of Flight StoryKnown for Google X, Author of 'Solve for Happy', Host of 'Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat'Official site

Common themes for Mo Gawdat include entrepreneurship.

Appearances7
Podcasts2
Linked books8
LatestAug 4, 2025
Podcasts featuring Mo Gawdat
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
6 episodes · latest Aug 4, 2025
Modern Wisdom
1 episode · latest May 25, 2024
Recurring topics
AI and societal change (3)AI and creativity (2)

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Now I believe that we are going to hit a short-term dystopia.

Alive · AI and societal change

The Artelic War was basically around, you know, how we, it's not going to be, first, it's not going to be a war between humans and AI.

the Artelic War · societal split over AI

Remember 1984? and the Orwellian approach of like, you know, freedom is slavery and war is peace.

1984 · dystopia and war

I know that you've started writing a new book called Alive, which is, I guess, a bit of a follow-on or an evolution of your thoughts as it relates to Scary Smart.

Alive · AI and societal change

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