There is a resistance to the idea that early humans were capable of large scale acts of cruelty. The problem with our species is just actually a problem, not with the species, but with a specific modern culture," he says. "We are basically ecological serial killers that we have driven to extinction"
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and philosopher whose books — "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," and most recently "Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World" — have sold more than 40 million copies. He joins Rufus for a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, life in the Stone Age, the future of democracy, and the threat of AI.
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