How come we don’t talk or listen to each other anymore? Despite having the most sophisticated information technology in human history, it seems to be increasingly difficult to have a conversation. This affects trust between people and trust between citizens and institutions. And it has a massive impact on the state of democracy. Watch the full Q&A session through the link in the bio. (Filmed at CogX Festival in September 2023). #IT #communication #trust #bigtech
“The revolutions in biotech and infotech will give us control of the world inside us, and will enable us to engineer and manufacture life. We will learn how to design brains, extend lives, and kill thoughts at our discretion. Nobody knows what the consequences will be. Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely. It is easier to manipulate a river by building a dam over it than it is to predict all the complex consequences this will have for the wider ecological system.” #psychology #tech #quote #21lessons #21lessonsforthe21stcentury
Real-life monsters never look like Hollywood villains. They often look like the most beautiful thing in the world, and that’s their danger. Full conversation with @lexfridman available via the link in the bio (recorded in July 2023). #hollywood #fascism #harrypotter
Announcing ‘NEXUS’: the thrilling and timely new book from the bestselling author of ‘Sapiens’, Yuval Noah Harari – to be published in September 2024. Find out more and pre-order a copy via the link in the bio. ‘NEXUS’ tells the story of how information networks have made and unmade our world, and asks: If humans are so wise, why are we so self-destructive? How can we rediscover our shared humanity? Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Harari invites us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence. @vintagebooks @randomhouse @penguinrandomca @penguinrandomhouse @penguinindia @penguinbuecher @penguinlibros @companhiadasletras @penguinlivros @penguinbooksaus @penguinbooksnz @penguinbookssouthafrica #Nexus #AI #information #pigeon #newbook #book #Harari
“For thousands of years the scientific road to growth was blocked because people believed that holy scriptures and ancient traditions already contained all the important knowledge the world had to offer. A corporation that believed all the oil fields in the world had already been discovered would not waste time and money searching for oil. Similarly, a human culture that believed it already knew everything worth knowing would not bother searching for new knowledge. This was the position of most premodern human civilisations. However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this naïve conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.” #knowledge #science #ignorance #quote #homodeus
There’s more than one way to censor content and ideas. Overwhelming people with too much information – even if it’s all truthful facts – prevents us from identifying what’s important and doesn’t let us filter out the noise. #TMI? #censorship #quote
The global financial system is very complicated. But what happens if it becomes so complex that only AI can understand it? That could threaten more than profits. It might even put democracy itself at risk. To listen to Yuval’s full conversation with @steven, recorded last month, check out ‘Diary of a CEO’ on your favorite podcasting app – or click the link in the bio. #ai #finance #democracy
Why are there so many wars and conflicts breaking out around the world? Populist leaders like Donald Trump have rejected the idea of global order and openly stated that they only care about their own nation. But without offering an alternative way of managing the relations between nations, the world falls inevitably into disorder. To listen to Yuval’s full conversation with @steven, recorded last month, search ‘Diary of a CEO’ on your favorite podcasting app – or click the link in the bio to watch it on Youtube. #war #conflict #politics #populism
They say that one person can change the world, but is that really true? If we really want to change the world for the better, we need to make use of a superpower that only humans possess. Click the link in bio for the full interview with @MSNBC, filmed in November 2023. #activism #cooperation #changetheworld #superpower #humanity
What does the A in AI stand for? The unprecedented abilities of this remarkable technology are not only Artificial, they are also Alien. In the not too distant future, a non-human intelligence is likely to eat up the whole of human culture, digest it, and start spewing out a new culture coming from an alien entity. What will this ‘invasion’ do to our politics, our religions, our psychology?… Click the link in bio for the full conversation with Gillian Tett on AI and the future (filmed at Cog X Festival in London in September 2023). #ai #culture #artificialintelligence #future
Did you know that the Bible endorses slavery? Every society needs laws. But if we claim that our laws came from God, how can we hope to ever change them for the better? Watch the interview with Ari Melber for @MSNBC’s The Beat through the link in the bio (recorded in November 2023). #society #laws #god #slavery
Why don’t we have K-Pop coming out of North Korea? How do countries that have access to exactly the same technology end up with such different cultures? How could the same electricity, radio and trains that built the Soviet Union also produce 20th century USA? Because technology is not deterministic, and humans can always choose what to do with it. Or at least that’s been the case up to this point in history. The rise of AI changes everything: this specific technology may take choice and control away from us. Ensuring that humans hold onto power is a huge challenge that’s urgent to tackle. Click the link in bio for the full interview with @MSNBC, filmed in November 2023. #ai #technology #determinism #kpop #artificialintelligence
Our world is built on fictions. They’re all around us: nations, corporations and religion were invented in the human imagination. And if it weren’t for the fictional stories we collectively tell, we might not be the dominant species on the planet. Listen to the full conversation with @steven for ‘Diary of a CEO’ on your favorite podcasting app – or watch it on Youtube. Link in bio. (Recorded 20 December 2023). #fiction #cooperation #nations #humanity
The risk posed by AI deep fakes goes far beyond identity theft and false pornographic videos. What might happen if AI began deep faking our economic system or even money itself? Listen to Yuval’s recent conversation with @steven by searching ‘Diary of a CEO’ on your favorite podcasting app – or watch it on Youtube. Link in bio. #ai #deepfake #money
Do you think of excitement as a positive feeling? In our fast-paced world, it’s possible to forget that being excited all the time is not great. In fact, it might just kill you! Listen to the full conversation with @steven for ‘Diary of a CEO’ on your favorite podcasting app, or watch it on Youtube – link in bio. (Recorded on 20 December 2023). #excitement #chillout #fightorflight
“Trust me, I’m a banker”, said no one recently. But throughout history, humans have used different methods of exchange to establish cooperation. Whether it’s gold coins, paper money or complex financial products, these things have built trust between people and enabled us to share food, develop medicines, and invest in society. Listen to the full conversation with @steven by searching ‘Diary of a CEO’ on your favorite podcasting app – or watch it on Youtube. Link in bio. (Recorded 20 December 2023) #money #trust
Populist leaders are on the rise around the world, attacking the liberal global order. They haven’t explained what will replace the order they have destroyed, and the result is the disorder, chaos and violence we are seeing today. #quote #politics #liberal
Is the positive potential of AI worth the risk of things going wrong? The temptation of this technology is undeniable: it could upgrade healthcare and living standards, maybe even solve the ecological crisis. But if mishandling AI results in existential disaster, those benefits won’t mean much anyway. Filmed in September 2023 at London’s CogX Festival. Link in bio for the full Q&A session. #AI #Risk #Technology
Artificial intelligence is developing so quickly that any laws we create now will no longer apply in a few years. Instead, we need to create living institutions that can respond to the challenges of AI in real time. Watch the full Q&A session from CogX Festival via the link in the bio. (Filmed in September 2023). #ai #regulation #armsrace
Why write for children now? Which human tendencies lead to war? And how can the long lens of history help us understand current conflicts? Watch the full interview with @yaldahakim for @skynews. Link in the bio. #future #writing #history #childrensbooks
Is the world ready for artificial intelligence? Listen to Yuval’s recent conversation with @steven by searching ‘Diary of a CEO’ on your favorite podcasting app – or watch it on Youtube. Link in bio. #ai #future #technology
Algorithms and AI are gaining more and more control and influence over our lives. But could they ever claim the biggest jobs of all? Would we vote an AI into Government? Listen to Yuval’s full conversation with @steven (recorded December 2023) by searching ‘Diary of a CEO’ on your favorite podcasting app – or watch it on Youtube. Link in bio. #ai #democracy
Printing, printing… printed! The English edition of ‘Unstoppable Us, Volume 2: Why the World Isn’t Fair’ will be in bookstores from the first week of March 2024. This is the next installment in the epic, New York Times bestselling children’s series from Yuval Noah Harari. Link in bio to grab a copy in your language. #UnstoppableUs #childrensbooks #YuvalNoahHarari #behindthescenes #bookprinting #printing @randomhousekids
Should we humans edit our genes? What are the implications of doing such a thing? Students at @instrosenberg recently explored these questions by participating in @sapienship.lab classroom activities. And they were inspired to create this thought-provoking video! To involve children and young people in the debate on common human challenges and our shared future – head to the Sapienship Lab website and check out the ‘Unstoppable Us’ book series by @yuval_noah_harari. #UnstoppableUs #SapienshipLab #Education #ActiveLearning #Science #GeneEditing
