Mo Gawdat
Former Chief Business Officer, Google X
AI & Human Happiness · Technology Ethics · Wellbeing
Speaking Fee
Fee on request
Based In
United Kingdom
Signature Topic
AI & Human Happiness
Format
Keynote
About Mo
Mo Gawdat spent more than a decade as a senior executive at Google, serving as Chief Business Officer at Google X, the company's moonshot division, where he worked on technologies years ahead of their public release.
After the death of his son Ali in 2014, he set out a personal mission he calls One Billion Happy and wrote Solve for Happy (2017), which treats happiness as an engineering problem with inputs that can be identified and changed.
His later work turns the same engineering lens on artificial intelligence. Scary Smart (2021) argues that AI will learn its values from how humans behave now, which makes the present moment the one that matters. He also wrote That Little Voice in Your Head (2022) and hosts the podcast Slo Mo.
Keynote Topics
Scary Smart: Teaching AI What We Value
Solve for Happy: Happiness as an Engineering Problem
Technology, Ethics, and Human Wellbeing
Staying Human in an Automated Economy
Best For
- AI and technology conferences
- Employee wellbeing and mental-health programs
- Executive leadership retreats
- Culture and transformation events
- Innovation summits
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