Yuval Noah Harari: The Urgent Warning They Hope You Ignore, More War Is Coming, Yuvals Chilling Future Predictions!

There is a fundamental difference between AI and the printing press or the steam engine or the radio or any previous technology we invented. The difference is it's the first technology in history that can make decisions by itself and that can create a new idea by itself.

People who have this kind of mystical belief in free will are the easiest people to manipulate, because they don't think they can be manipulated.

Money has no value except in the stories that we tell and believe each other. If you think about gold coins or paper banknotes or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, they have no value in themselves ... But you have people telling you very compelling stories about the value of these things, and if enough people believe the story, then it works.

Our minds are like factories that constantly produce stories and fictions that then come between us and the world. And we often spend our lives interacting with fictions that we or that other people created, completely losing touch with reality.

People have different mythologies, different stories in their minds, and they can't find a common story that can they can agree about. And this is at the root of most human conflicts.

It could very well mean that we'll just change ourselves using bioengineering and using AI in brain-computer interfaces. We will change ourselves to such an extent that we'll become something completely different—something far more different from present-day Homo sapiens than we today are different from chimpanzees or from Neanderthals.

Much of what we take to be real is fictions.