Yuval Noah Harari
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The printing press could print our ideas, but could not create new ideas. AI can create new ideas entirely by itself. This is unprecedented. Therefore, it is the first technology in history that instead of giving power to humans, it takes power away from us
The printing press could print our ideas, but could not create new ideas. AI can create new ideas entirely by itself. This is unprecedented. Therefore, it is the first technology in history that instead of giving power to humans, it takes power away from us
And the danger is that it will increasingly take more and more power from us until we are left helpless and clueless about what is happening in the world. And this is already beginning to happen in an accelerated pace. More and more decisions about our lives. whether to give us a loan, whether to give us a mortgage, whether to give us a job, are taken by AI.
And the danger is that it will increasingly take more and more power from us until we are left helpless and clueless about what is happening in the world. And this is already beginning to happen in an accelerated pace. More and more decisions about our lives. whether to give us a loan, whether to give us a mortgage, whether to give us a job, are taken by AI.
And the danger is that it will increasingly take more and more power from us until we are left helpless and clueless about what is happening in the world. And this is already beginning to happen in an accelerated pace. More and more decisions about our lives. whether to give us a loan, whether to give us a mortgage, whether to give us a job, are taken by AI.
And more and more of the ideas, of the images, of the stories that surround us and shape our minds, our world, are produced, are created by AI, not by human beings.
And more and more of the ideas, of the images, of the stories that surround us and shape our minds, our world, are produced, are created by AI, not by human beings.
And more and more of the ideas, of the images, of the stories that surround us and shape our minds, our world, are produced, are created by AI, not by human beings.
That we can't resist the idea. To resist an idea, you need to have some vision of the creative process. Now, this is a very old fear. You go back to Plato's cave, some of this idea that people are sitting chained in a cave and seeing shadows on a screen, on a wall, and thinking this is reality. You go back to Descartes, and he has this thought experiment of the demon.
That we can't resist the idea. To resist an idea, you need to have some vision of the creative process. Now, this is a very old fear. You go back to Plato's cave, some of this idea that people are sitting chained in a cave and seeing shadows on a screen, on a wall, and thinking this is reality. You go back to Descartes, and he has this thought experiment of the demon.
That we can't resist the idea. To resist an idea, you need to have some vision of the creative process. Now, this is a very old fear. You go back to Plato's cave, some of this idea that people are sitting chained in a cave and seeing shadows on a screen, on a wall, and thinking this is reality. You go back to Descartes, and he has this thought experiment of the demon.
And Descartes asks himself, how do I know that any of this is real? Maybe there is a demon who is creating all of this and is basically enslaving me. by surrounding me with these illusions. You go back to Buddha, it's the same question.
And Descartes asks himself, how do I know that any of this is real? Maybe there is a demon who is creating all of this and is basically enslaving me. by surrounding me with these illusions. You go back to Buddha, it's the same question.
And Descartes asks himself, how do I know that any of this is real? Maybe there is a demon who is creating all of this and is basically enslaving me. by surrounding me with these illusions. You go back to Buddha, it's the same question.
What if we are living in a world of illusions, and because we have been living in it throughout our lives, all our ideas, all our desires, how we understand ourselves, this is all the product of the same illusions. And this was a big philosophical question for thousands of years.
What if we are living in a world of illusions, and because we have been living in it throughout our lives, all our ideas, all our desires, how we understand ourselves, this is all the product of the same illusions. And this was a big philosophical question for thousands of years.
What if we are living in a world of illusions, and because we have been living in it throughout our lives, all our ideas, all our desires, how we understand ourselves, this is all the product of the same illusions. And this was a big philosophical question for thousands of years.
Now it's becoming a practical question of engineering because previously all the ideas, as far as we know, maybe we are living inside a computer simulation of intelligent rats from the planet Zircon. If that's the case, we don't know about it.
Now it's becoming a practical question of engineering because previously all the ideas, as far as we know, maybe we are living inside a computer simulation of intelligent rats from the planet Zircon. If that's the case, we don't know about it.
Now it's becoming a practical question of engineering because previously all the ideas, as far as we know, maybe we are living inside a computer simulation of intelligent rats from the planet Zircon. If that's the case, we don't know about it.