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'A Turning Point in History': Yuval Noah Harari on AI’s Cultural Takeover

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Historian Yuval Noah Harari says that we are at a critical turning point. One in which AI’s ability to generate cultural artifacts threatens humanity’s role as the shapers of history. History will still go on, but will it be the story of people or, as he calls them, ‘alien AI agents’?

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Aza.

0:05.0

So today we'll be bringing you the public conversation I just had with our friend

0:09.8

Yval Noa Harare. He's the author of a new book, Nexus, A Brief History of Information Networks

0:15.8

from the Stone Age to AI.

0:18.4

We sat down at the Commonwealth Club of California with moderator Chirine Gafari, who is the senior AI reporter at Bloomberg News.

0:26.8

It was a fascinating conversation.

0:28.8

It covered a lot of ground.

0:30.4

We talked about the historical struggles that emerge from the invention of new technology,

0:34.8

humanity's relationship to technology, whether we're a one or a two marshmallow species,

0:41.6

what Move 37 means for global diplomacy, and fundamentally

0:47.1

how we as humanity can survive ourselves.

0:51.8

We also talked about the immediate steps lawmakers can take right now to steer us towards a non-disopian future.

0:57.3

One of the points we return to again and again that we have a short window before AI is fully entangled with society in which we can make

1:05.2

choices that will decide the future we will all be forced to live in.

1:10.0

I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

1:12.8

Oh, and one last thing.

1:14.3

Please don't forget to send us your questions.

1:16.4

You can email us at undivided at humane tech.com,

1:20.7

or just record a voice memo on your phone so we can hear your voice and then send that to us.

1:26.0

If there's anything you've heard on the show that you want us to go deeper on or explore,

1:30.0

we want to hear from you. Hello and welcome to tonight's program hosted by the Commonwealth Club World Affairs and the Center for Humane Technology.

1:43.0

My name is Sharon Gafari.

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