Mo Gawdat on Happiness: Why Some People Will Never Be Happy

Happiness is always a choice, but are we really free to make it? The world around us influences our ability to choose. Some environments make happiness effortless, while others make it feel impossible. With AI, we have the opportunity to create a world of total abundance, solving humanity’s biggest challenges. But the real challenge isn’t technology, it’s our mindset.

Right now, we’re still trapped in a scarcity-based way of thinking. Some people will lose their jobs before we even figure out what comes next. Wealth and power will continue to concentrate in fewer hands, while others struggle to keep up. AI has the potential to provide for all of us, just as nature always has, but only if we learn to shift from competition to collaboration, from scarcity to abundance.

Will AI create a fairer world, or will it only deepen inequality?

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