Yuval Noah Harari

It's really fundamentally different from every previous challenge that we had in history.

Absolutely, I mean, the positive potential is enormous.

The most important thing to realize about these AIs, they are agents, not tools.

All previous technologies in history were tools, not agents.

An atom bomb is not an agent.

An atom bomb cannot change in ways that you don't predict.

An atom bomb cannot decide who to bomb.

AI can.

Now, this on the one hand makes AI much more useful

than any previous technology because you can be in a relationship with it and you can tell it what you want and then it can invent new things that you would not think about.

So this is extremely useful, but the problem is that it's unpredictable and uncontrollable.

Do you think you can trust them to just keep to the goals that you're telling them to pursue and not to develop their own goals?

Now, the way that I often like to think about the AI revolution at this moment is in terms of immigration.

that we are about or already in the middle of a major new immigration wave coming to all the countries of the world.

The immigrants are not human beings without a visa coming in some boat.

They are AI entities coming at the speed of light.

Usually people say, the people who oppose immigration, their main concerns are that the immigrants will take jobs,

The immigrants will change the culture, and the immigrants might not be politically loyal.

And I'm not sure if this is always true of human beings, human immigrants, but it's definitely true of AI immigrants.

The AI immigrants will take a lot of jobs.