NEXUS (Part 2): Yuval Noah Harari on How to Safeguard Humanity in the Age of AI

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Is AI all bad, or could it be so good that we might one day want to merge with it? This is just one of the questions Rufus poses in part two of his conversation with historian and mega-bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari. 1️⃣ If you missed part one of this conversation, listen now on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📕 Yuval’s new book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, is out now 📩 Want the latest insights from the world’s top thinkers delivered to your inbox every morning? Sign up for our new Substack at bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com 🎉 We're hosting another live taping on Oct. 10, featuring Daniel Pink in conversation with Adam Moss, former editor of New York magazine and author of "The Work of Art." Learn more at nextbigideaclub.com/events

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:05.8	I'm Rufus Griskam and this is the next big idea.
0:09.6	Today, part two of my conversation with Yevall Noah Harare. So, On Monday we released part one of my conversation with you
0:39.3	Vall about his much anticipated new book six years in the making,
0:43.6	Nexus, a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI.
0:49.2	If you haven't heard the first information
0:57.8	information technology writing, making marks and made possible property rights, taxation. in mud with sticks, as you all likes to say,
1:02.5	which made possible property rights, taxation,
1:05.5	and as a consequence, the first empires.
1:08.0	We discussed the emergence of the printing press in the 1400s,
1:11.5	which we like to think made possible the scientific
1:14.6	revolution, the Enlightenment, and the emancipation of human rights through democracy.
1:19.4	In fact, Harari argues, the printing press resulted in two centuries of religious wars and
1:25.2	deranged witch hunts, only later paving the way for large-scale democracies, as well
1:30.6	as ruthless totalitarian regimes.
1:34.1	We discussed the destabilizing impact of the internet, social media, and now artificial
1:39.4	intelligence, which is already empowering dictators with surveillance capabilities we could only have imagined a decade ago.
1:47.2	Democracy has always felt to many of us like the natural outcome of human progress.
1:53.0	This is what we teach our children.
1:55.0	This is what we learned growing up.
1:57.0	But is it so?
1:58.0	Social media seems to have weakened democracies around the world.
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