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Comment by Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In the 21st century we might witness the creation of a massive new unworking class: people devoid of any economic, political or even artistic value, who contribute nothing to the prosperity, power and glory of society.AI Verified source (2017)
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The provided source URL is a TED Ideas article titled "The rise of the useless class," published on February 24, 2017 and credited to Yuval Noah Harari. It contains the exact quoted sentence at lines 58–59, so the quote is real, verbatim, and correctly attributed. ([ideas.ted.com](https://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (ideas.ted.com) returns HTTP 403 and blocks AI fetching. However, the quote is corroborated verbatim via web search across multiple sources: it is Yuval Noah Harari's well-known passage from "Homo Deus" / his TED Ideas essay "The rise of the useless class" (2017): "In the 21st century we might witness the creation of a massive new unworking class: people devoid of any economic, political or even artistic value, who contribute nothing to the prosperity, power and glory of society." Author attribution (Harari, historian) and year (2017) are correct. The vote "for" the statement "AI will create a permanent underclass" correctly aligns — Harari predicts a new unemployable "useless/unworking class." The 2017 quote remains relevant, so I kept it. I searched for a genuine 2026-onward Harari quote (Davos 2026 / Bloomberg House appearances reference "economic obsolescence" and structural irrelevance), but every candidate source returned HTTP 403, so I could not confirm exact wording from a fetchable primary source; per the no-fabrication rule I did not add one. Marking ai_unverifiable strictly because the source_url blocks fetching; all other checks pass.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
replying to Yuval Noah Harari