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Yuval Noah Harari: AI Will Destroy Democracy!

Guest: Yuval Noah Harari • 2024-02-26 • 3.9M views

Historian, author of Sapiens

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📝 Episode Summary

Yuval warns about AI's threat to human autonomy and democracy.

🎯 Top Takeaways

  1. Data is the new oil, and tech companies are the new colonial powers
  2. Biotechnology and AI will split humanity into enhanced elites and the rest
  3. Homo sapiens conquered through shared myths: nations, money, and religions are all stories
  4. Algorithms will know us better than we know ourselves—and manipulate us accordingly
  5. The agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud: we didn't domesticate wheat; it domesticated us

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