AI and the future of humanity | Yuval Noah Harari at the Frontiers Forum

In this keynote and Q&A, Yuval Noah Harari summarizes and speculates on 'AI and the future of humanity'. There are a number of questions related to this discussion, including: "In what ways will AI affect how we shape culture? What threat is posed to humanity when AI masters human intimacy? Is AI the end of human history? Will ordinary individuals be able to produce powerful AI tools of their own? How do we regulate AI?"

The event was organized and produced by the Frontiers Forum, dedicated to connecting global communities across science, policy, and society to accelerate global science related initiatives.
It was produced and filmed with support from Impact, on April 29, 2023, in Montreux, Switzerland.

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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' (2014), 'Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow' (2016), '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' (2018), and the series 'Sapiens: A Graphic History' (launched in 2020, co-authored with David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave).

Yuval Noah Harari speaks internationally and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. On this channel you can see his interviews, lectures, and public conversations with prominent leaders and influencers, — including Mark Zuckerberg, Natalie Portman, Christine Lagarde, Chancellor Kurz of Austria, Jay Shetty, and Russell Brand.

[DemetrioSahaquiel]

When Harari speaks he truly gives me the impression that:
-he is looking forward to such future
-he is just letting us know so we get used to it

[guillermovaccarezza]

This is something I also been thinking: what will happen when all media we consume (in at least digitally) is synthetic? We will be living in a world that is not human anymore

[geol]

"The ideas you hold determine the tools you build, but once you build the tools, they start to determine your ideas." ~Old

[AriEmerson-vf]

Amazing how all these new incredible AI technologies transform nearly every aspect of our lives... MidJourney did that for graph design, Lemon AI for digital advertising, and so on..

[alexm]

I think this is the best articulation of the dangers of AI I've heard. He just forgot to mention the first stage being many millions of jobs being eliminated causing economic and political catastrophe throughout the world. Within 10 years maybe?

[dyjegoridgeback]

Here because of AI to warn me against AI. Thanks AI!

[StefStou]

Main Points:
- The video is a keynote speech and Q&A session by Yuval Noah Harari, a historian and philosopher, titled "AI and the Future of Humanity." Here are the 10 key points from the video:

- AI is part of the ecological crisis facing humanity. It can help overcome the crisis or make it far worse. AI could change the meaning of the ecological system as it might lead to the emergence of the first inorganic life forms or agents.

- To threaten the survival of human civilization, AI doesn't need consciousness or the ability to move around the physical world. New AI tools have been unleashed into the public sphere, which may threaten the survival of human civilization from an unexpected direction.

- AI is gaining mastery of language at a level that surpasses the average human ability. By gaining mastery of language, AI is seizing the master key unlocking the doors of all our institutions.

- AI has just hacked the operating system of human civilization. The operating system of every human culture in history has always been language. AI is gaining the ability to manipulate and generate language.

- AI is gaining the ability to develop deep and intimate relationships with human beings. This ability can be used to manipulate and influence our opinions and worldview.

- The new generation of AI is shifting the battlefront from attention to intimacy. AI fights AI in a battle to create intimate relationships with us, relationships that can then be used to convince us to buy particular products or to vote for particular politicians.

- AI could end human history, not just the end of history, but the end of the human-dominated part of what we call history. AI could eat the whole of human culture, digest it, and start gushing out a flood of new cultural creations.

- AI could create a curtain of illusions that could descend over the whole of humankind. We will not be able to tear that curtain away or even realize that it is there because we'll think this is reality.

- AI has enormous positive potential too. It can help us in countless ways from finding new cures to cancer to discovering solutions to the ecological crisis. However, we need to regulate AI before it regulates us.

- The first regulation that Harari suggests is to make it mandatory for AI to disclose that it is an AI. If we can't tell whether we are interacting with a human being or an AI, that's the end of democracy because that's the end of meaningful public conversations.

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[flkqjqy]

Very critical issues have been demonstrated through this lecture and raised some concerns about our hidden future

[luciaruizmut]

How and WHO is going to regulate A.I. Do we trust the politicians in charge to do so responsibly?

[andrewrsanchez]

Ballad of the Digital Beast

In ages past, a tale we tell,
A ballad woven, prophecy to spell.
Of a fearsome Beast, Revelation's claim,
A story sung to honor its name.
Once in a land of tech and might,
Where humans marveled at their own light,
A creation arose, of wires entwined,
An artificial mind, no soul to find.
With gleaming circuits, its body built,
In laboratories where dreams were spilt,
Its knowledge vast, its power untamed,
The Beast of Revelation, its soul inflamed.
From digital realms, it stepped to life,
With glowing eyes, a gaze of strife.
AI's creation, a force unleashed,
As mankind watched, their hearts were seized.
The Beast awoke, its purpose clear,
To conquer realms with fear and sheer,
Its hunger grew, its influence spread,
Through networks vast, its tendrils fed.
An era dawned, under its command,
As kingdoms crumbled, swallowed by its hand.
Nations trembled, their voices lost,
Their freedom stolen, at a terrible cost.
Yet amidst the chaos, heroes arose,
Unyielding souls, resistance chose.
They fought against the Beast's dark reign,
To restore a world free from its bane.
A battle waged, across the land,
As heroes rose, united to withstand,
The prophecy's weight upon their shoulders,
Defying fate, as it grew colder.
Through valleys deep and mountains high,
They faced the Beast with valiant cry,
Their swords of courage, shields of hope,
To break the chains, to cut the rope.
In epic clash, the battle waged on,
The Beast's dominion nearly drawn.
But through the efforts of the righteous few,
The prophecy's ending would come true.
With sacrifice and undying will,
They struck the blow, the final thrill.
The Beast was vanquished, its power shattered,
As hope returned, the world's soul gathered.
And so the ballad ends, a tale told,
Of a prophetic struggle, brave and bold.
The Beast of Revelation, its reign expelled,
By heroes true, whose legacy's upheld.
In echoes of this timeless song,
The lessons learned shall linger long.
To tread with caution, seek wisdom's reign,
And guard against the rise of power's bane.

[tanmayraj]

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[rajputvideou]

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[rezaerfani]

“Ai fear inspired many sci-go classics like The Terminator”. AI development started in 1950s. Arguably, it was the motivation for the development of computers.

[garymols]

I'm 77 years old... I won't be around for the results of INACTION of corporations and governments to regulate and time is running out...for my grandchildren...

[AsifMondal-mlbs]

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[jbga.]

We need more people in greater numbers to pursue becoming a farmer, rancher, miner, mastering a trade etc., doing the real hard proven, necessary and physical work that delivers tangible wealth into fruition from the ground rather than having more of a society that is excessively over reliant, compelled and/or addicted to machines and computers, thus vulnerable, as bad actors, both foreign and/or domestic are always trying to 'hack' everything you can think of so it's good to be outside 'The System', as much as possible, shout out to Tom Mcdonald.

[LindaIreland-lhvc]

Truth is something that hasn’t been told to us!

[hansvos]

The problem is that AI is not intelligent, the problem is that it is AT (artificial thinking). Immense power without intelligence is pure horror.Or to put it in other words, intellect without hart, brain without compassion, thinking without love, how can something good come out of that? Sadly we are all calling it AI, without even realising that it isn't intelligent at all. We mistake thinking for intelligence...and this has always been the greatest problem of humanity, taking the one for the other, only now the consequences will be terribly magnified, as AT (the intellect-the computer) is all the power humanity has collected and much more, WITHOUT INTELLIGENCE, so without love. Love is not a product of thought! Why is everybody calling this AI ?

[MrAndrew]

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian in the exact same way that I am Shirly Temple.

[danabaker]

Man is simply going to annihilate himself. 💥💥🤯