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Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is AI Taking Control?
I don't have a grim view of human nature, but I do think that human beings are deeply impressionable plastic social creatures and under the right conditions for capable of almost anything. They will our ability to understand and manipulate ourselves becomes more powerful. Within a few decades, it can be completely out of control and then there is no turning back. In historical time, that's not even a blink. We don’t have a lot of time. The moment like you establish a totalitarian regime with total surveillance, zero privacy, increasingly, all decisions taken by some central algorithms,. You cannot escape that from within the system. Simply from outside, somebody can come and destroy, but not from within
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