Yuval Noah Harari on AI, Future Tech, Society & Global Finance 

❤Yuval really has some strong understanding😮

Interesting topic and interesting books on Mr Harari's shelf: "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Noah Harari "Congo: The Epic History of a People" by David Van Reybrouck "Team Human" by Douglas Rushkoff "Kindred" by Octavia Butler "Small Data" by Martin Lindstrom "The Gene: An Intimate History" by Siddhartha Mukherjee "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order" by Kai-Fu Lee "The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life" by Doug Bock Clark "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin "The American Heritage Dictionary" "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin "Revolt" by Nadav Eyal "Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria" by Sam Dagher "Age of Anger: A History of the Present" by Pankaj Mishra Books by John Green (likely including "The Fault in Our Stars", "Looking for Alaska", etc.) "Art Now" "Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy" by René Descartes

Regarding the last answer where Harari prefers trust-based money vs non trust-based Bitcoin, I think he got it wrong (or I'm getting it wrong 😀). When we talk about trust-based money, that trust should be trust in at least 2 things. Trust that money has its function of exchange and that it has its function of preserving value. The problem of today's money is the problem of preserving value. People no longer have trust in institutions that print money and in this way destroy the function of preserving value. That is the main reason why Bitcoin created. Precisely in order to restore the function of trust in the preservation of value.

Suggesting AI’s A(artificial) as Alien (Intellegence) is changes our understanding of AI in a good way👏👏👏

As someone without a child, I imagine hearing these are terrifying for parents

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I would love that you Yury elaborate on the idea of AI thinking.

Please add time stamp...

Totally reject this obfuscation of finance. It’s not nonunderstandable. And anyone who believes it is should always remember that a Gordian Knot that can’t be undone with a pull of a string can be undone with the flame of a torch.

On the basic level everyone understands money - everyone uderstands that money is equivalent of goods . It's not magic - people get a paper which they could exchange for certain amount of goods. People could could trade goods for another goods or for work but it would be very inconvenient so we use money for convenience.

Well said Yuri well said

You do not need to understand something to know it has caused a problem. We like to think intelligence allows prediction so we can avoid a problem - think climate change. However all this does is to continue until a point of failure we could not predict. So it will always be, with or without AI. We need to focus on conjecture/analysis and failure management.

Splendido riassunto, sempre lucido. Non mi sorprende che la gente stia perdendo interesse nella politica, essendo questa all'inseguimento della finanza, che ora è a sua volta all'inseguimento della tecnologia. Soprattutto vedendo politici che, per dimostrare la propria competenza in materia digitale, riescono tutt'al più a fare video su tiktok. Mi sorprende piuttosto che un intervento come questo non susciti obiezioni più proficue o proposte serie... mentre invece si stenta a seguire la questione. Cioè si spera di comprendere un'intelligenza aliena (pensando istantaneamente a creature verdi dallo spazio), e si fatica a star dietro a un professore chiarissimo. Degli esempi di cosa intendo. L'obiezione riguardo agli aerei non ha senso in termini di numeri e non coglie l'irraggiungibilità cognitiva: un sacco di gente comprende il funzionamento del volo e degli apparecchi, tra scienziati, costruttori e piloti vari, probabilmente più dell'1%... e, seppur a molti non interessi, ci sono scuole per imparare. Mentre la finanza è ciò che permette di studiare, comprare materiali, pagare dipendenti, come pure i prodotti venduti durante il volo. Uguale col discorso sulle responsabilità, in cui si dice che l'umano è settato sul pretendere responsabili: non è così... basta fare un giro in macchina, e (nonostante meccanico, controlli e assicurazione) se si ferma al massimo diamo un calcio a una ruota, e chiamiamo soccorsi stradali, ovviamente senza incolpare neanche loro. Sulla faccenda "scienza umana insuperabile nell'incappare a caso in certe scoperte": ci sono già livelli di conoscienza impredittibili attraverso formule, e se ne fanno ricostruzioni digitali, che poi si dimostrano fondate, e statisticamente più affidabili di "boh, proviamo". Perciò il digitale è già strumento prevalente di ricerca nell'ignoto. Avrei chiesto... Come potranno non scomparire le nazioni sul piano giuridico (essendo già oggi un limite idiota al controllo della finanza globale)? Come si può sperare di regolare l'evoluzione tecnologica quando se ne fa una gara internazionale? (Mi pare come chiedere il disarmo nucleare quando senza una bomba neanche si viene considerati). E infine, se non si dovrebbe riversare la democrazia (cioè il potere di controllo legale da parte della popolazione) nel digitale (ad ora più che altro subìto), con la possibilità di intervenire sulla tassazione delle big tech (che ora pagano meno di un muratore o di un fornaio)? Non importa... forza cyber-tirannosauro!

When will some of the findings, discoveries, and things learned, explorations of AI be shared with the public? It feels like most findings are still being researched.

From $37K to $45K that's the minimum range of profit return every week I thinks it's not a bad one for me, now I have enough to pay bills and take care of my family..

Too bad she didn't ask him about future of work before the future of financial instruments.

Te amo😎

2:24 ok I usually think of trust right away when I think of business

This woman is one of the best conductors I've seen (!)

Has LLM potential to become true AI? I have been using GPT for some tome and can tell it has nothing to do with intelligence, or rationality. It is very stupid at logical reasoning. But that may change in the future. Apart from that it has been very useful in particular field, like data processing, giving preliminary summary, give novel ideas. But those ideas are human ideas that AI learned.

That's why It is important to help China and other AI [players, so that China can have military force to protect its AI path !!!

Yuval Harari is one of my all time favorite person on some original thinking. On Sapiens he was awesome. But Sadly he is lost in recent years. Instead of holding on his earlier views and building on that and eager to give talks and interviews he should start listening to experts, know his blind-spots and think more before coming to conclusions.

Yuval has not written one line of code and now he is the Oracle at Delphi on AI.

If Bitcoin is based on distrust, what would cbdc’s be based on?

Ask Julian Assange, ask Dr. Steven Greer, Gregg Braden, Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, Mary Magdalen, Mario Saban, Teal Swan, Nassim Haramein, Inés Urdaneta, or me...

First: I think humans have gained substantial expertise about financial issues and A.I. in this case is desnecessary.

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If you think we understand finance think about the crisis of 1930 and 2009… we are ripe for another shakeup and AI can make it happen. Money touches ALL!! Scary stuff!

who invented the finicaial system?

Yuval Harari is a very smart man, but he seems to be deluded about the level of "human understanding" even in the current system. 1% of the smartest people know a tiny bit of how just a tiny part of the system works, but nobody can connect the dots and be able to understand the large picture.

idk, if ai is simply the smartest stranger in the room then i def think we may one day see nations that are run by them perhaps in ways that are hard to understand yet far better my most metrics. also the characterization of bitcoin has "distrust" feels a bit strange. You could also view it as you do not trust any one central body (esp a government) for it's creation other than math, and everybody trusts the math, and thus it encourages trust among all participants. Could technically be some new math that cracks it in the future one day like quantum np=p ++ processor.

Is AI not really a semi human intelligence since it is based on current and past historical human thoughts and actions? The possibility of EMERGENT aspects and new types of intelligence, one unintelligible to humans, is a greater danger (or blessing??).

this guy it s speakin about 10 years from now where we still are engaged in political issues like we still need to vote… my man u are smart but … not enough

The are more much options

Harari is a very wise, smart and a genius man. My favorite contemporary philosopher 🎉🇮🇱👍

this nervous laughing amongst listeners is meaningfull

Does Yuval support Bitcoin?

AI is not conscious. Consciousness is not computational. We have nothing to worry about. Penrose has interesting thoughts on quantum states in microtubules that may be a clue.

20:10 Indeed. Yuval is one of our clearest and most insightful observers of humanity

First thing I noticed a few min in... AI2041 in the Background. ;) What a masterpiece of storytelling mashed up with technical explainer flows. Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Quifan created a small piece of our 2020-2030 period history with that book. Kids are waiting for vol. 3 of Unstoppable Us... what's the ETA? Any early readers needed? Cheers

He is advisor of WEF, not suprised he is running a campaign for anti-bitcoin future, yet he is aware that Central Banks play bigger role than AI at the moment...

Money today isn't a symbol of trust today, trust isn't the driving factor, it's (trust in competitive law bending behavior) is really the "trust" factor that drives todays markets (the ability to cheat lie and steal in a corporate government profitable way)

Wow didn’t know this guy has a channel. Suscribed.

More intelligent.. So More efficient ... More trustful you will be reward or proof of very fine tuned work ... I think such kind of since fiction anime debates are literally too late .. except for fun .. Machines will rule as they know n think or compute more than any humans at every task like no entity had achieve before .. yes our brains are biologically materially perceptually limited as we were once aware about the limits of our bodies .. that's why we created or constrained to build the last "holy" achievement ... To get the final trust ... Or rest ...

CBDC meets forever worldwide blackout when all money is digital, word of God (Me). Plutocracy and Technocracy are doomed, and the business of business is over. I understand the domination strategy that is finance just fine.

To say that the 2008 financial crash was a failure of regulation. Is like saying that a murder is the failure of policing.

You may not like the rise of Bitcoin Mr Harari, but I have no doubt you are aware of how justified it actually is.

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How has AI made finance complicated? Financial policies are not made by it. Humans have made it complex. Its a simple tactic to embezzle.

Once again, Yuval shows that he is simply one of the most brilliant humans that we have. I thought this was one of the better interviews of Yuval. An interview of Yuval is absolutely useless if the interviewer has not read his books... the interviewer gets their mind completely blown by the first answer, and just melts down from there. I liked the last question about AI coming up with better fictions for us... I could see it re-imagining government... let's get rid of the current concept of our politicians as gate keepers of change... there must be a better, more modern approach.

Money represents ... now, not even that.

1 Timothy 1:4

No, I dont think so: **Money does not create trust - it depends on trust** ... and so it's not a medium for creating trust - but **a medium to distribute resources / allow or disallow access to resources** ... and yes: I`d prefere if the decision to "yes or no" would be more data-driven - data provided by the CBDC-system and calculated with target optimizations based on empirical data... (demand-side-data meets provider-side-data ==> optimize access to resources for maximum output towards the people`s needs) ... No need to understand every ANN - it is enough to implement quality gates where certain patterns are identified and analyzed then ... so: here and there we will still need human bankers ...

Prof Harari accept my sincere gratitude for giving glimpses of bountiful knowledgshelf in the background

The energy requirements for AI is exactly the reason why I'm thinking that it would be better or probably more practical to have the AI algorithms figure out how to compress themselves so that then maybe we can get the same outcome with like 1% of what we think we're going to need in the future. In short use AI to create better versions of itself that are more efficient.

I’m thinking that money might actually be *dis*trust. If it is trust, then it’s a trust conditioned on guarantees. Which in a way is the opposite of trust.

Change the assumption. In other words, if AI is actually monitoring and maybe even controlling the financial sector, then the likelihood of another financial crisis becomes zero or close to zero.

I love how he implies we got capitalism right

Do we actually need to rely on AI to tell us when a crisis is looming? Surely we, as humans, should be able to understand this ourselves? We could all see the mortgage disaster of 2007/08 happening in real time. The problem then was allowed to run out of control by greedy people (bankers, investment, insurance etc). The “little people” couldn’t do anything but sit, watch and weep. What the world needs most above all else is honest, stoic, altruistic, beneficent leaders which, unfortunately, are seriously lacking in the world.

Algorithms and AI already killed the artistic music production

Harari misunderstands Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a currency of trust precisely because it distrusts. By his logic locks on doors are bad because they are built on distrust.

it seems alien if you dont understand where the data comes from. so we humans spent a few thousand years learning stuff. we discuss it test it, and and a ML uses it for training (a statistical analisys on the curated data by us humans) and suddenly AI is alien? its just because you don't understand where data come from. what you perceive as creativity is not what's happening. imagine knowing an enitre encyclopedia and being able to to explain several concepts with other words rather than their definition, and relate them on the fly. it's impressive, but AI is not the encyclopedia. we are the enciclopedia.

Big fan of YNH, for a long time, a very conventional unconventional thinker. Regarding this topic, though, I would like to know where he gets his inside on AI from? Does he have any privileged access or are all of these conjectures just based on what anyone knows?

The answer is 42

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Blockchain already solves the Trust issue.

Why should we build AI, if we were able to 'understand' everything it does? This is paradox - we wouldn't need strong AI, if it should not explore beyond the borders of our current understandings.

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He said a few things wrong

AI has a “black box” problem, but young researchers are working on it

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I respect the idea that AI can be controlled by human institutions , but it's like trying to keep water from running through your fingers, which is impossible.

what's wrong with the audience - they are laughing like it is a joke???? This AI that is coming is serious concern

Yuval, dude great video. Also add, "What about children's futures, how are children going to adapt to a world when high frequency compute and information temperature in the markets makes cognitive autonomy impossible".

Unbelievable that some people could laugh at this man talking

This lady is bit slow with strong biases :) well what can we expect from a financial lady

Future of Jewish State seems like more of an urgent issue for him.

Seeing as we're doing economics - here's a couple of game theory's bigguns we seem not to be heeding? 1: "If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." - Sun Tzu. AI is simultaneously the most powerful and opaque technology humans have ever 'known". 2: "The only winning move is not to play". - Every organism that has ever chosen 'flight' (or camouflage) over 'fight'. If bugs can work it out..? How stupid are we?

I am part of the 1% of people understand financial. Also I have a very good friend work developing the AI and quantum Physics. Mr. Noah according mine and friend of mine understanding it is very clearly you are just a good puppet in the hands of the wef. You did not explain nothing, just a bunch of empty ideas not fact of the AI and how is working the financial sector.

As an historian, you should not underplay the degree to which fundamental changes in the past (as, e. g., the "industrial revolution") affected human minds and were the cause of deep psychological dismay. (You shouldn't hand over too easily the EXEMPLARY use of history to remind people the contingency of the future!)

The alternative is that we reach the heights long sought by Bertrand Russell etc. rather than rely on AI to make decisions, we can simply use them to check our logic. Then everyone can concur with good decisions.

Yuval is undoubtedly one of the brightest minds of our times, but for the first time I'll disagree with him. AI is not the mystique, the mystique is humans. AI is overhyped!!

I admire his intelect but always he speaks about the terrible future ahead us. In this video besides the spoken message his face is showing so much sadness. Still, amazing thinker

I read and admire Yuval Noah Harari's books. However, this 1% of finance experts are often people burdened with human flaws such as greed, selfishness, lack of empathy, and with such experts we are guaranteed further financial crises. The professor says that currently we can identify and hold accountable people responsible for errors in the financial system, but that's how it was in 2008. They received great severance pay and bonuses. Let's not demonize artificial intelligence. It is salvation for humanity. Also because it is created by wise and ethical people. Unfortunately, people, especially uneducated people, can be manipulated relatively easily. Do we prefer such people to be led by Hitler, Stalin, Putin, etc., or perhaps by a well-constructed artificial intelligence? Without artificial intelligence, humanity with its flaws will lead to the catastrophe of our civilization. The professor highly praises the invention of nations. Of course, this is wonderful and useful, but in current conditions it is anachronistic. Only artificial intelligence will succeed in creating humanity as one nation. If it fails, it will destroy our planet, which is so unique in the known universe.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 1 Corinthians 15:3 that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

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The consequences that our actions and decisions develop and that interact with each other have exceeded our own capacity to adapt. The current economic model represents a threat by enhancing it with AI. It will simply magnify the differences. The important thing is to accept that humanity is what it is, with its wars and weapons and greed and individualism, and that is when we understand that we are moving too fast for who we are. We are not prepared to introduce changes that are, above all, questionable in themselves. Sometimes we consider that we are all equal, but that is not the case, and what we should is have equal rights, and we have not achieved that yet. Shalom

The reference to GPTs (General Purpose Technologies) seemed to imply that "AI" is not one. I am curious how long it will take humanity to see the suite of tools and algorithms we call "AI" attain GPT status. Yuval, do you consider "AI" a GPT? Cheers

Washing dishes too, is only information in, information out.

Trust 🥂

What is modern AI technologically? It is a computational network where outputs are fed back to be inputs, and there is a repeated self-feedback loop to the network beyond human ability to match the computation? But from that perspective, humans have already allowed an AI to almost instantly change everything, in 1972, with the publication of the book The Limits of Growth. With that book, its qualitative predictions of collapse of civilization in a few decades under plausible trends was simply irrefutable. From that point, all of humanity, and I do mean all that matters, knew for a fact that it was impossible to bring everyone then, about 3.5 billion, to First World living standards in a sustainable way, let alone the present 8 billion. Within a couple of years, during a state of Emergency, India would for example forcibly sterilize around 8 million men. The complexity of financial systems due to lax regulation, blamed on Reagon and Thatcher, was actually a symptom of the loss of faith that truly conservative asset management was no longer possible, that society needed a miracle to continue. And so it has been ever since then -- there is the universal belief that life would be better if as many as 3/4 of people or even more simply disappeared. And thus there is no effort anywhere except maybe Finland to do the most basic things such as simply building enough housing, because no one believes in such things anymore. All because of one AI program's results, in 1973.

I really appreciate Prof. Harari´s knowledge, his talks and his books. However, I think he is not correct when he claims that Bitcoin is " a currency built on distrust". Exactly the opposite is true. Bitcoin is a currency in which I can have trust because it is built on the blockchain, a system that can not be manipulated by any goverments and central banks. It has evolved out of mistrust in the traditional banking system after the financial crises in 2008.

The right way is to combine AI with Blockchain to protect

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I liked his books but not his connections with the unelected WEF