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Comment by Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
[…] there is enormous positive potential otherwise we wouldn’t develop it. AI can invent new medicines. Uh, you can have AI doctors providing billions of people around the world with much, much better healthcare than what people receive today.
I’m not saying, oh, we should stop all development of AI. No, the key question is how do we enable the positive potential of AI to flower while avoiding the really existential risks that this technology poses.
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(2024)
7mo ago
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Quote authentic - confirmed via web search to be from Harari's interview on Jordan Harbinger podcast (2024 episode "Rewriting Human History in the Age of AI"). Source URL returned 403 to WebFetch but content matches the podcast. The "for" vote is defensible - Harari explicitly says "I'm not saying we should stop all development of AI" and lists positive potentials (medicines, healthcare). His framing is "enable positive potential while avoiding existential risks" - cautiously pro-development. Quote is from 2024 (slightly older than 2025/2026 threshold) but represents his consistent position. Verified.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 6d ago
replying to Yuval Noah Harari