Yuval Noah Harari

In those cases, AI will probably be a force for good, for immense good.

A lot of the mysteries of the universe, which are beyond the human capacity, AI will be able to solve for us.

But if people think that AI will thereby make the universe more understandable and more controllable, they are completely mistaken.

because they don't take into account the other thing that information does, which is to create new stuff.

Information doesn't just tell us things about the world.

It creates entirely new things.

Like DNA doesn't tell us the truth about the world.

It creates new things, living beings, living entities.

Now, AI will tell us the truth about many things, but it will also create a lot of extremely complicated systems, which will be far beyond the human ability to understand and control.

These systems will probably dominate our lives, and we will find ourselves in

not being able to understand our lives anymore.

And maybe the best example again is markets, is finance.

You know, if you think about the financial system, money, money is the greatest story ever told.

It's the only story that almost everybody believes.

It's a story in the sense that it's not an objective reality.

Like the US dollar is just a story we all believe.

It doesn't come from the laws of physics.

It doesn't tell us something about the universe.

We tell the story of the dollar, and as long as everybody believes in it, we can take a dollar, give it to a complete stranger, and get bread in exchange.

Now, AI will not tell us the truth about finance.