Yuval Noah Harari

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Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Location: Israel

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Should humanity ban the development of superintelligence until there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably and strong public buy-in?

Yuval Noah Harari strongly agrees and says:

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Superintelligence would likely break the very operating system of human civilization - and is completely unnecessary. If we instead focus on building controllable AI tools to help real people today, we can far more reliably and safely realize AI’s incredible benefits. (2025) source Verified

added 6d ago
Is free will an illusion?

Yuval Noah Harari strongly agrees and says:

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People certainly have a will and they make decisions all the time. But most of these decisions are not made freely. source Unverified

added 23h ago
Should humanity build artificial general intelligence?

Yuval Noah Harari agrees and says:

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[…] 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. (2024) source Unverified

added 7d ago
Should we have a universal basic income?

Yuval Noah Harari abstains and says:

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Paying people not to work will only increase inequality and rancor. [...] If universal basic income is aimed to improve the objective conditions of the average person in 2050, it has a fair chance of succeeding. But if it is aimed to make people subjectively more satisfied with their lot in order to prevent social discontent, it is likely to fail. source Unverified

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