Episode notes
In this Voices in AI episode, hosts Eldad and Joseph engage with Mo Gawdat, a former Google executive and author of "Scary Smart," to discuss the future and ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). Gawdat shares insights from his tech career and his vision of AI's development, emphasizing the need for responsible and ethical AI innovation. He highlights a pivotal moment when he observed robotic arms learning autonomously, sparking concerns about AI's rapid advancement and its "black box" nature.
Gawdat advocates for "parenting" AI with positive influences and proposes a radical 98% tax on AI businesses to slow development for more thoughtful progress. The episode also explores AI's impact on creative fields, like music, questioning the balance between AI-generated and human-created content. The discussion concludes on the potential of AI to ...