Yuval Noah Harari

Now, if you are on Instagram, so you're basically holding your phone and doing snake, snake, snake, snake, snake.

And the algorithm simply hacked our evolutionary program.

They've hacked us.

And what we are seeing around us is just the beginning.

That as AI becomes more and more sophisticated, it will learn to hack us on a deeper and deeper level.

And if we don't fight back to defend ourselves, the consequences will be much, much worse.

They know, they learn our weaknesses, our emotional, our psychological, our social weaknesses, and how to use them to manipulate people.

So now social media algorithms, which are very, very primitive AIs, have discovered a few weaknesses in the human code, which they have hacked and now they manipulate us, causing us to spend hours and hours on Instagram or Facebook, even though we don't really want to.

You know, people, you know, after like spending an hour, two hours, they wake up and they say, why did I do that?

I plan to do something else with my time.

You were hacked.

You were manipulated.

And this is still, you know, just the very primitive AIs.

If we are not careful, we will be hacked on a much, much larger scale in the coming years as the AIs become not just far more manipulative, but also will develop their own goals.

You know, these social media algorithms, they're pursuing a very simple goal of just increasing user engagement on the platform.

As AIs become smarter than us, they will have their own goals.

Yes.

Yeah.

And I think this is a very, very important point because we are living in a moment when the battlefront is shifting from attention to intimacy.

How to build intimate relationships with human beings.