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North Africa / Europe · Diaspora · 4 September 2026

Mo Gawdat brings an Egyptian engineering mind to technology ethics

The former technology executive now writes and speaks about AI and human wellbeing.

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The former technology executive now writes and speaks about AI and human wellbeing.

His public work asks whether innovation is being governed around human values.

Technical literacy should widen—not narrow—the conversation about AI.

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