But this is all surface information about our behaviour in the world. Harari: It starts by having corporations and governments amass enormous amounts of data about where we go, what we search online and what we buy. And I’d say the most important fact anybody who is alive today needs to know about the 21 century is that we are becoming hackable animals. But we are entering an era of hacking humans. There’s a lot of talk about hacking computers, emails and bank accounts. Similarly, the combination of AI and biotechnology means that we are very close to the point when you can hack human beings. But what will the consequence of that be? Will this create an extremely unequal society in which an elite control all of the economy and make all the profits, whereas most humans become part of some kind of useless class? This is not inevitable, this is up to us. For example, computers and robots replacing more and more humans. Harari: Some things are definitely going to happen. Anything else is a distraction.Īl Jazeera: What do you think is going to happen with big data, bio-engineering and AI? What is going to be the impact on all of us? We still have some choice about what kind of impact AI and bio-engineering will have on the world, but they will change the world, maybe more than anything that happened previously. But technological disruption is bound to happen. Hopefully, we can prevent a nuclear war and climate change from happening.
This will change the world more than anything else. Yuval Noah Harari: There are three big challenges facing humankind in the 21st century: nuclear war, climate change and technological disruption, especially the rise of AI and bio-engineering. In an interview with the Talk to Al Jazeeraprogramme, Harari discussed technology, immigration and politics with Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett in Tel Aviv.Įditor’s note: This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.Īl Jazeera: In your view, w hat are the key challenges and threats we face right now and going forward?
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The same themes crop up again in his latest work, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, which collects essays, talks and responses to his readers in a series of observations on everything from meditation to climate change. In his next book, Homo Deus, the Israeli historian and author explored how the growth of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and biotechnology could radically alter and divide human society, perhaps ending the species altogether. The book, which covers the history of humanity from the discovery of fire to modern robotics, became a non-fiction publishing phenomenon, feted by then-US President Barack Obama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and went on to sell more than eight million copies worldwide. Yuval Noah Harari was catapulted into the international literary spotlight in 2014 following the English translation of his book Sapiens.
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