“Why is it that the quality of our information did not improve over thousands of years?
We can split the atom but not distinguish truth.
Our information is failing us
– Yuval Noah Harari
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Why is it that sophisticated modern societies are as susceptible as early tribalism to mass delusion, misinformation, and the rise of destructive ideologies verified by initiated AI?”
We belong to a world that is more interconnected, and yet more volatile than ever before. The masses of information that make this connectivity possible present the largest and most pressing threat to humanity, says historian and the best-selling author of ‘Sapiens’ @YuvalNoahHarari. Sitting down with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin @92NY, Harari discusses the way our information systems are flawed, and how, despite our leaps in technology over the past centuries, we still remain as susceptible to deception and delusion as our ancestors were thousands of years ago.
Harari says that if we don’t fix the flaws in our information systems, they could drive us to total disaster. In an exclusive hour-long interview, the Nexus author discusses truth, AI, fears, our possible future, and key ideas from his new book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’.
Timestamps: 0:00: Who is the arbiter of truth? 0:59: Low-quality information 6:16: Objective physical reality and cooperation 11:29: GPT-4 deception 18:11: Alien intelligence 22:30: Democracy and information 30:23: Setting information free 34:44: Algorithmic fear 38:36: The power of curation 46:49: The annihilation of privacy 53:26: Israel and Palestine 1:04:02: Human-AI relationships 1:09:52: The enormous potential of AI.
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