The Most Intelligent Being on the Planet Is Life

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We have amazing technologies that give us so many amazing qualities of life, like you and i being able to talk right now. But at the same time, that promise fails because of our limited intelligence. The most intelligent being on the planet is life. Life doesn't want to kill the tigers to survive. Life wants more tigers and more and more flies, and more poop and more everything. That attitude of abundance is intelligence itselfand my belief is that interesting lit is why i always go back to my optimism about ai.

Mo Gawdat was Chief Business Officer of Google X, the experimental development arm of the internet behemoth. He's since written books on how to find happiness and his new one, Scary Smart, warns of the potential dangers posed to the world by super-smart artificial intelligence. Media correspondent for the Sunday Times, Rosamund Urwin, speaks with Mo about the new book, the future of AI, and how business works at the top level of a Silicon Valley tech titan.

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