Enter #AI: back in 2018, #YuvalHarari proposed that AI would supercharge dictatorships by mining and summarizing the public mood - as captured on social media - allowing dictators to tack into serious discontent and diffuse it before it erupted into unequenchable wildfire:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/

Harari wrote that "the desire to concentrate all information and power in one place may become [dictators] decisive advantage in the 21st century."

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"If we are so smart, why do we do so many stupid things?"

-- Yuval Noah Harari

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4hIlDiVDww4

#Humanity #YuvalNoahHarari #YuvalHarari

"AI does not need consciousness or mastering of the physical world in order to put Human civilisation at risk of collapse. I only needs to hack our language."

--Yuval Noah Harari

https://youtu.be/LWiM-LuRe6w

#YuvalNoahHarari #YuvalHarari #AI

"Humans rule the world because we are able collaborate flexibly in huge numbers. No other species can do this."

-- Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj7Wg4DAbs

#YuvalHarari #YuvalNoahHarari

If you haven't read any of his books or listened to a talk or interview with Yuval Noah Harari you got to watch this. It you know him you'll watch this anyway.
... and oh yes, he also thinks that it is way way cheaper and way more convenient to stop the climate breakdown now than waiting around until we have water coming in through the front door ... #StopFossilFuelsNow #ClimateBreakdown #YuvalHarari
https://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_the_actual_cost_of_preventing_climate_breakdown

"We are all Homo sapiens."

So simple, yet many of us don't get it.

#YuvalHarari #Equality #Humanity #Sapienship

https://youtube.com/shorts/WD332g_7fpA?feature=share

Yuval Noah Harari warns people about social media and phone usage. Yet, he has accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Why doesn't he switch to Mastodon?
https://www.withoutborders.fyi/yuval-nuval-harari-hero-and-h/

#yuvalharari #yuvalnoahharari #socialmedia #socialmedialternatives #hypocrite #fixtheinternet #culture @Mastodon @Gargron

Do you want to live forever?

Sapienship, the social impact project of Yuval Noah Harari and his husband Itzik Yahav, candidly explores the potential options and consequences of the extension of human life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUpaESxy6oc

#Sapienship #YuvalHarari #ItzikYahav

Fascinating conversation by Yuval Harari, Mark Solms and Gita Wirjawan about consciousness, compassion, democracy, artificial intelligence, artificial emotions, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8h7zojuM5Q

#YuvalHarari #MarkSolms #GitaWirjawan #Conciousness #AI #Democracy #History #Endgame

Hyvä essee: https://www.hs.fi/visio/art-2000009279032.html #YuvalHarari

#YuvalHarari ist auch so ein #Precht - nur halt in Gross und leider viel einflussreicher ...

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/die-gefaehrlichen-irrtuemer-des-bestellerautors-yuval-noah-harari-18462651.html

RT @EeroVaisanen: "Johtajuus ratkaistaan siinä, onko meillä suuntaa ja toimintaa, tuntuuko elämä ja puurtaminen merkitykselliseltä, kuulummeko joukkoon." Toivottava tulevaisuus on kuviteltava. @kirsipiha kiinnostava kolumni @apulehti #johtajuus #tulevaisuus #yuvalharari https://www.apu.fi/artikkelit/kirsi-piha-johtajuus-on-paaoma-ei-ominaisuus-kolumni

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/kirsipiha/status/1568949382443159552

#yuvalharari nennt #Nation und #Verbraucher "erfundene Gemeinschaften" oder: Weshalb wir mehr #Commons brauchen https://youtu.be/Rl2ZagsPvl4 ; Anders Wirtschaften. Jetzt!