# Mo Gawdat

- Id: `mo_gawdat`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/mo-gawdat/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `35c00651c405c7cf643132de3d41822365869827ead117ea0d731d67c503809c`

## Summary

An engineer and author, Mo Gawdat approaches happiness and stress as problems to model, test and practise. His later work asks how human values might shape artificial intelligence before its power outruns our judgement.

## Overview

Dated knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 13 September 2026.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1967–present",
    "era": "Contemporary era",
    "distance": "59 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Contemporary applied thought on happiness, stress and AI",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Contemporary applied thought on happiness, stress and AI"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 2026,
    "display": "2026 CE",
    "reason": "Dated knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 13 September 2026."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 4,
    "passages": 2558,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Egypt",
        "period": "born 20 June 1967",
        "description": "The country of birth is documented. No more precise birthplace is asserted here.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.mogawdat.com/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Abu Dhabi",
        "period": "technology career",
        "description": "Public professional biographies place part of his NCR career in the United Arab Emirates.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.mogawdat.com/"
    },
    {
        "name": "London",
        "period": "documentary production, 2024-2026",
        "description": "One of the public stops documented for the Happiness project.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.mogawdat.com/"
    },
    {
        "name": "New York",
        "period": "documentary production, 2024-2026",
        "description": "One of the public stops documented for the Happiness project.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.mogawdat.com/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Shanghai",
        "period": "documentary production, 2024-2026",
        "description": "One of the public stops documented for the Happiness project.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.mogawdat.com/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Riyadh",
        "period": "documentary production, 2024-2026",
        "description": "One of the public stops documented for the Happiness project.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.mogawdat.com/"
    }
]
```