You write about AI in Homo Deus. Where are you right now on AI? As a force operating on the stability of civilization? Yes, I would say the most important thing to realize about AI is that it's the first technology in human history that can take power away from us. Because it can make decisions on its own, potentially. This destabilizes society for good and for also for bad. So we're on a knife's edge, that's what you're really saying. That doesn't feel comfortable to be there.
How did humans come to create society? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of “Sapiens” & “Unstoppable Us,” discuss our species’ ability to cooperate, the role of artificial intelligence, and more.
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