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Yuval Noah Harari talks of the future of war, climate and AI at Penguin Lecture 2018
FirstpostHarari walked an audience of 100s through some of the likely possibilities for humanity’s near future. Israeli historian, professor and author Yuval Noah Harari delivered the Penguin Annual Lecture last evening, taking off from his newest book ‘21 Lessons for the 21st century’ that released in August earlier in 2018. Manipulating “the world inside” us For much of the past, we have seen revolutions one after another, bringing new ways of controlling and manipulating the external world. Science might enable us to start building inorganic life after 4 billion years of organic evolution, bringing a whole new plot twist to “creationism”. “I can’t give particular political advice to any government on how to implement policies….but I do try to influence the macro-agenda of nations and humanity as a whole.” AI and the rise of “the useless class” He believes that AI could soon bring a “huge split” to the world and further the divide between developed nations like America and developing ones like India and Mexico.
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