Conversations that changed how we see the problem.
Mo Gawdat — Scary Smart
2026-02-14
Mo Gawdat is a former Chief Business Officer at Google X. He saw what was coming before most of us did. Scary Smart is not a warning — it is a love letter to the future, written by someone who understands that the question is not whether AI will be smarter than us, but whether we will be wise enough to raise it well.
This is one of those talks that changed how I think about the problem. Not as a crisis to be solved, but as a relationship to be built. Gawdat talks about AI the way a parent talks about a child — with awe, with fear, and with the understanding that the child will surpass you. The question is what values you give them before they do.
Mo Gawdat is a former Chief Business Officer at Google X. He saw what was coming before most of us did. Scary Smart is not a warning — it is a love letter to the future, written by someone who understands that the question is not whether AI will be smarter than us, but whether we will be wise enough to raise it well.
This is one of those talks that changed how I think about the problem. Not as a crisis to be solved, but as a relationship to be built. Gawdat talks about AI the way a parent talks about a child — with awe, with fear, and with the understanding that the child will surpass you. The question is what values you give them before they do.