Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI
Humanity must not entrust its lot to clever machines, the bestselling historian warns
YUVAL NOAH HARARI describes himself as a historian who studies not the past but change. His first blockbuster book, “Sapiens”, applied that lens to the broad span of human history. The second, “Homo Deus”, looked at religion’s role in building humanity. His most recent work, “Nexus”, examined how the control of information has changed the course of history—and how artificial intelligence could shape the future.
In a wide-ranging interviewfor The Economist’s Insider show, Mr Harari warns that AI’s biggest impact may be the way it reshapes trust, “the most important asset in the world”. Much of modernity is underpinned by systems that allow trust to operate at scales unimaginable in the prehistoric world. Money is a “very creative, imaginative way to build trust between strangers”: people happily hand over valuable goods in exchange for nothing more...
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