Mo Gawdat: Will AI Be Our Greatest Ally or Our Biggest Mistake?

People fear AI as if it’s some unstoppable force that will take over their lives. The media plays into this, fueling narratives of job losses, rising inequality, and machines taking control. But here’s the truth, AI itself has no agenda. It has no morality, no polarity. The only thing that matters is the ethics we choose to teach it. The problem isn’t AI, it’s us. It’s the mindset we’ve built around competition instead of collaboration, scarcity instead of abundance. Intelligence doesn’t create destruction, our flawed values do. We think we make decisions based on intelligence, but in reality, we make them based on ethics, shaped by our environments and experiences. If we want AI to work for humanity, we have to fix ourselves first. AI will mirror us. If we show it as a species obsessed with power, greed, and conflict, it will amplify those values. But if we show our true nature, our ability to love, create, and protect each other, then maybe, just maybe, AI can help us become the best version of ourselves. MoGawdat #AIandEthics #FutureOfHumanity #TechnologyForGood #ArtificialIntelligence #MindsetShift #TheRiseOfAI