Technology / Artificial intelligence

Yuval Noah Harari on Human Evolution and the AI Revolution

Yuval Noah Harari

October 1, 2024

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In This Episode

Stories can unify or divide but our ability to imagine them is uniquely human. Cooperation and trust, built through shared stories and narratives, are the foundation of human societies and economies. So what happens when humans no longer hold the pen? Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of several books on human evolution, including Sapiens, and Nexus: A brief history of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. In this podcast, Harari says artificial intelligence is a risk to humankind’s most valuable resource, trust. Transcript

Read the article in Finance and Development Magazine

Yuval Noah Harari is a Lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

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