The Future of Humanity - with Yuval Noah Harari

Dr Yuval Noah Harari explains how revolutions in technology and society will transform our bodies and minds.

Throughout history there were many revolutions: in technology, in economics, in society, in politics. But one thing always remained constant: humanity itself. We still have the same bodies, the same brains, and the same minds as our ancestors in ancient China or in the Stone Age. Our tools and institutions are very different from those of Confucius’s time, but the deep structures of the human body and mind remain the same.

However, the next big revolution of history will change that. In the twenty-first century, there will again be many revolutions in technology, in economics, in politics. But for the first time in history, humanity itself will also undergo a radical revolution. Not only our society and economy, but our bodies and minds will be transformed by new technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology and brain-computer interfaces.

Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. Above all, it will make you think in ways you had not thought before – Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

Dr Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind', published in 2014, was on the Sunday Times bestseller list for over six months in paperback, was a New York Times top ten bestseller and has been published in nearly 40 languages worldwide.

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[cjstory]

Everytime our society develops a new technology, the people are told how many human lives will be saved from starvation, saved from cancer or diabetes, or saved from human error at high speeds...but what really happens is the technology is weaponized,

[TheRoyalInstitution]

Thanks to our friends across the pond, we now have Spanish and Portuguese subtitles for this video. Thank you so much for your time and effort!

[vickigehring]

AI cannot hold my hand or cry with me when my mother is dying. If people agree with this vision for the future of humanity, the world is in serious trouble.

[curtisreeveslackore]

emotion is what makes us human! AI has no compassion

[rdizzy]

This is very true about doctors and the medical profession in general, people have this extremely incorrect assumption that only low end manufacturing jobs or manual labor jobs will be replaced with AI/robots, but there are VERY many high end jobs that require 4-10 years of college that will be replaced as well, doctors, surgeons, pharmacists, stock brokers, accountants, bankers, etc, etc. All easily replaced by AI.

[TengYuan]

dont know why people needed to hear a lecture like this

[liligloo]

Humans are so creative as soon as they get out of mindless task the human mind will truly show itself watch in our lifetime. This is just the beginning 😎

[larrywilton]

This guy YUVAL blows me away. I would love to watch an interview with Mr Harare and Naom Chomsky. OMG

[michaelzlprime]

It's great that more and more people are talking about the coming Labourpocalypse.
The problem, as Harari put it, is not in the loss of a job but in the tremendous shift in political power it will bring, In the creation of a vast useless class and the social revolution or mass culling, it will unavoidably bring.
The communist upheaval together with the french revolutions will seem like a pleasant afternoon in the garden compared with the chaos that is coming.

[skittles]

The 3rd thing we have as a species I reckon is our ability to tell Stories

[JayBrockFilm]

One thing he completely misses with the "economically useless" rhetoric: without the middle class, there are no buyers for all the products created by the elite-controlled robots. The entire economy relies on labor. Capital is just a temporary means of facilitating exchange.

[mtfine]

Brilliant. Sapiens blew my mind from the first page. Homo Deus is a brilliant follow-up. One of the most important thinkers of our age.

[mvsa]

What about our emotional and spiritual abilities? Professions like psychologists, therapists, yoga instructors, musicians, art teachers and artists? Creating robots might just make us more human. ⚡️

[jakecostanza]

What's laughable about this is that the obsession with a flawless world will create an even more flawed world.

[primemagi]

good work, but it would be better if Dr Yuval Noah Harari appreciate the problem was not the machine and now the AI, but mankind leadership. In Nature most higher animal like elephants, the leader lead to better grazing area and resources like salt and water, but has similar amount as others for self. Their reward is respect. Not wealth. Mankind leadership used to be wise in the same way. but now those with power and leadership take everything they can and leave very little for others. This accumulations of power and resources is the cause of problem rather than AI or machine. The Future of mankind is governed how much wisdom the leaders exercise. Not what aid mankind use to do routine jobs. MG1

[joecaner]

Economists in the 1960's noticed that productivity was rising exponentially and predicted the leisure society because, at some point, most people could abstain from work because they could afford not to, but that only works if wealth is distributed equitably. Instead, wealth continued to concentrate into a few hands and the benefits leisure have accrued to an opulent class with the vast majority of people becoming all but expendable the eyes of those who now own the world, and they are being treated as such. Your correct. It is not a prophecy. It is the world in which we live today. If AI were to deliver the benefits that you've outlined in your presentation under today's ethos, mass genocide would be a very real possibility...

[MSCH]

He is so right about doctors. I had a medical condition which my personal physician and specialist could not diagnose. I found it myself searching internet. It was only a food which made me sick whenever I ate it.

[borisowl]

I am a brazilian boy and i love him books

[parolabianca]

There is a beautiful book by Silvano Agosti: Letters from Merryland (in italiano originale Lettere dalla Kirighisia) a poetic image but not only poetic about how human been, artificial intelligence, politics could harmonize themselves and leave room for a serene life even for us human beings.
When asked: "what to teach children ?"
At the moment the key words that comes to my heart are : presence, art, knowledge, and certainly the ability to invent yourself continually. I can imagine an artificial doctor, a driver, an artificial lawyer, and so on.
But I certainly can not imagine an artificial intelligence that plays a piano and invents melodies you never heard before or a dancer who paints space with his body and his emotions.
Imagination and creativity are powerful tools. Science itself needs visionary beings that go beyond the already known;
So the answer I can give myself now is that a future possibility is to be HUMAN BEING ( as the word itself says, being ... not human making human will in full presence of his creative abilities and why not, maybe even with the biological changes needed to make it last much longer

[CDGMR]

“For though they knew Adonai, they did not glorify him as Adonai or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools” Romans‬ ‭1:21-22‬ ‭CSB‬‬