We are losing control of our lives, increasingly more and more decisions about our lives are taken by algorithms. The AI revolution is just 10 years old; we haven't seen anything yet. We have to be extremely concerned about the dangers inherent in this technology. If we are not careful, it will create the worst totalitarian regimes in history. Things far worse than what we saw in the 20th century with the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
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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