{"text":[[{"start":8.15,"text":"Mo Gawdat is someone you might trust with the future. An Egyptian writer and software engineer with a sweet sense of humour, he is also deeply serious about power and responsibility. That much is borne from first-hand experience. He was one of the architects of the current era in tech, spending 11 years at Google up to 2018, including five as chief business officer of “moonshot factory” Google X. "}],[{"start":32.9,"text":"Great advances in artificial intelligence happened on his watch. It may be telling, then, that he no longer works in Silicon Valley. Instead, Gawdat warns of the dangers of AI in books, live appearances, and as the focus of documentary Chasing Utopia."}],[{"start":49.7,"text":"As per the title, he tries to stay hopeful, framing his ideas as the pursuit of progress rather than simply stalling the apocalypse. His favourite analogy for what AI could be is Kal-El, the starchild who grew into Superman: a blank canvas, counselled by wise human parents."}],[{"start":68.2,"text":"For Gawdat, that has sad personal connotations. In 2014, he lost his 21-year-old son, Ali, during a routine operation: a tragedy that spotlights good faith arguments for AI as a path to perfecting medical science. All the more sobering, then, that other “godfathers” of the technology here — Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio among them — are now so regretful. "}],[{"start":92.30000000000001,"text":"Sam Altman appears only in archive. We do revisit his 2015 forecast that AI will “probably” end the world. (“But in the meantime there will be great companies created.”) If this modest, measured film has a flaw, it is the feeling of a beginner’s guide. As we know, this journey has begun already. "}],[{"start":113.60000000000001,"text":"★★★☆☆"}],[{"start":116.95,"text":"In UK cinemas from May 15"}],[{"start":128.55,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1778890112_1862.mp3"}