How AI Shapes What We Believe: Yuval Noah Harari & Larry Wilmore In Conversation

How do AI and information networks shape our beliefs, influence democracy, and affect major political decisions like the US elections? Join Yuval Noah Harari and Larry Wilmore – comedian, writer, producer, and cultural commentator with a knack for using humor to probe serious issues – as they dive into the profound ways our shared realities are formed and transformed. Together, they examine how collective perceptions influence society’s most critical systems, discussing the intersection of AI, democracy, and the societal narratives that shape our world.

Filmed in Los Angeles on October 15, 2024, and hosted by Live Talks LA.

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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), the graphic novel series ‘Sapiens: A Graphic History’ (launched in 2020, co-authored with David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave), the children’s series ‘Unstoppable Us’ (launched 2022), and ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’ (2024).

Yuval Noah Harari and his husband, Itzik Yahav, are the co-founders of Sapienship: a social impact company specializing in content and production, with projects in the fields of education and storytelling. Sapienship’s main goal is to focus the public conversation on the most important global challenges facing the world today.

Yuval Noah Harari speaks internationally, is a professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. On this channel you can see his interviews, lectures, and public conversations with prominent leaders and influencers — including Mark Zuckerberg, Christine Lagarde, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Steven Bartlett, Natalie Portman and Anderson Cooper.

[bobbybannerjee]

Excellent discussion.
Not that much of humanity cares. We don't realise to this day how important it is to listen to wise people.

[annafatti]

Thanks Yuval, your conclusion was excellent.

[juanlugofitness]

What a pleasure it must be to have Yuval at your dining table.

[mxevaNZ]

Awesome talk, thanks so much for publishing it

[Rich_ard]

Yuval is one of the most important minds of our time. Good interviewer too!

[davidnour]

Sharpe nailed one flaw in Harari's model: consciousness is the ability to reflect about one's existence and condition, not only the ability to feel.

[FeralChildTarot]

I love the positivity here .. and I too focus on solution. I’m not going to go too deep right now into my personal experience but I think we’re already past the point of deterring AI’s malevolent technology properties.

[muhammadsheraz-gi]

Aristotle, Plato, of our time, Harari

[rotten_pupper]

I can't help but picture Yuval and Morpheus having a chat...

[rrlvllx]

I do NOT think consciousness on computers is around the corner. I do however think mimicking awareness will become excellent, (enough to fool most).
It will change social structure.
..and emotions of real people.

[tommycheng]

People hearing without listening
People talking without speaking

[rrlvllx]

Quite an interesting interview. A lot of historical insights that help one put together what actually occurred in the past.
FYI.
It can challange ones current accepted views.

[PaulaTerryLancaster]

Poor interviewer who constantly interrupts the speaker.

[jamesbeamish-bt]

Brilliant! The feather bird and the aeroplane. Deleuze's smooth (aeroplane) and striated feather bird.

[FrancesjMaloney]

Thank you, for the story of Dr. Snow and the Cholera epidemic. He deserves that we teach AI to be good.

[alejandrocastillo]

This guy always explains consiousness and I always want to amend what says. He got so close today and missed it. Consiousness is the subjective reality that he describes. AI do not have subjective experience (as far as we can tell)

[VS-bsbv]

The narrator's voice towards the end of the interview is completely superfluous, and it interrupts an interesting discussion

[jay]

Imagine if we could go back in time and print Yuval's books on the printing press instead of the Bible and Qur'an.

[daniel-qssz]

I love how Yuval explains things that even a 6 year old could understand

[zonszein]

"...with a single piece of paper you can save or destroy..."