The full-length interview with Yuval Noah Harari | The Economist

Uvel Noah Harrari, welcome to the Insider. >> Thank you. It's good to be here. >> It's I've been so looking forward to this conversation. Um, not only are you one of the world's most prominent public intellectuals, your books have sold millions of copies and they've done so, I think, because you have a really

remarkable ability to synthesize the broad sweep of history, >> but also you you are willing to make bold predictions about the future, which not every historian is willing to do. That's where I wanted to focus today. The future, particularly the future in an AI world. It's something you've been writing about a lot. And you've called

AI, and I'm going to quote this, the biggest quote psychological and social experiment in human history. >> Um, and I want to explore what this experiment will look like, what will it mean for our societies, our politics, indeed our humanity. And I wanted to start with another conversation I had just a few weeks ago which I don't know

if you saw but with Elon Musk. >> Yeah, I I watched that. Yeah, [laughter] >> it was quite a conversation but um in it at the beginning I asked him what the world would be like in 10 years time and he made some very I thought very very striking points. First he said he

thought that AI will have far surpassed human intelligence. >> Yeah. Secondly, that it would be a world of super abundance and thirdly it was unlikely humans would be in control. >> Do you share that vision? >> I generally agree with the first and third uh predictions that it's very likely given current trajectories that

AI will be more intelligent than us in 10 years and therefore will be in control. I disagree that this is inevitable. I mean you hear a lot that this is inevitable from the people who are leading this revolution because this basically relieves them of all responsibility. >> So you you disagree it will be