Yuval Noah Harari

[…] 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 n... more Unverified source (2024)

AI, however, is fundamentally different: It is an agent; it can write its own books and decide which ideas to disseminate. It can even create entirely new ideas on its own, something that has never been done before in history. We humans have never fa... more Unverified source (2025)

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 in... more Verified source (2025)

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

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 subj... more Unverified source