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Flow in the AI Age: Your Last Human Advantage

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Jul 30, 2025
Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at Google X and bestselling author, teams up with Steven Kotler, a peak performance expert and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. They dive deep into the implications of rapid AI development on our humanity. Topics include how intuition, context, and creativity are our unique advantages over machines. They discuss the importance of flow states to enhance performance and reshape our relationship with AI, while emphasizing the need for resilience and collaborative efforts to navigate this technological landscape.
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AI's Productivity Hype vs Reality

  • AI currently enhances work quality but does not save time or increase productivity.
  • The ground-level experience contradicts widespread hype about AI's capabilities.
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AI's Rapid Emerging Potential

  • AI is underhyped because it is still early in its development and evolving rapidly.
  • Self-improving AI and agent-based AI will soon transform capabilities beyond current expectations.
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Necessity of Global Cooperation

  • Human cooperation at scale is essential to solving existential threats including AI risks.
  • Advances in neuroscience and technology may help us achieve new levels of global cooperation.
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