Scary Smart

Mo Gawdat is my life guru. His writing, his ideas and his generosity in sharing them has changed my life for the better in so many ways. Everything he writes is an enlightening education in how to be human. – Elizabeth DayMo is an exquisite writer and speaker with deep expertise of technology … This book will teach you how to navigate the scary and inevitable intrusion of AI as well as who really is in control. Us. – Dr Rupy Aujla, MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, Founder of “The Doctor’s Kitchen”A proactive and bold read that provides the shake that humans need to take back our agency over AI, and therefore the fate of the world as we see it. – Dr Camilla Pang, author of Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and RelationshipsA brilliant mind … Mo takes us on a whirlwind exploration of the fast-approaching singularity, and offers a desperate last chance to have a say in the future of humanity. Read this book! – Tim Ash, bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal BrainNo one ever regrets reading anything Mo Gawdat has written. – Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Multi-Hyphen Method and host of award-winning podcast Ctrl Alt DeleteScary Smart is unlike anything I’ve ever read … What Mo does is help us analyze what it means to be human, by looking at what can or cannot happen with the rise of artificial intelligence. – Poppy Jamie, author and founder of Happy Not Perfect

Mo Gawdat is a serial entrepreneur, the former chief business officer of Google [X] and author of Solve for Happy. Mo has cofounded more than 20 businesses in fields such as health and fitness, food and beverage and real estate. He served as a board member in several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods companies as well as several government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He mentors tens of start-ups at any point in time. Outside of work, when he’s not writing or reading up on business and the latest technology innovations and trends, Mo spends his time drawing charcoal portraits, creating mosaics, carpentry and indulging in his passion for restoration of classic cars. Scary Smart is his second book.