The Smartest Hacker in the Room

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Oki's been instrumental in building some of those technologies. He says he still thinks it will be beneficial for humanity in the long term. But when you're in the hampstead wheel, you don't recognize how far things are going. Oki: "There is an introduction of a new being becoming super power"

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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