Is information truth or fiction? And is AI a danger to humanity or an opportunity for democracy? In the second episode of “The Pioneer Briefing – The Interview” Gabor Steingart speaks with the Israeli historian and best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari. On board the media ship The Pioneer Two, they talk about the dangers and potential of artificial intelligence and the state of liberal democracies.
Harari vividly explains why AI is not just the next stage in an evolutionarily developing human history, but rather a break in which the overused buzzword disruption is really appropriate. It is a conversation in which you can experience in detail why Harari is one of the great intellectuals of our time. He doesn’t say anything beautifully, but one shouldn’t misunderstand his words as apocalyptic either. The future, Harari says again and again, is in our hands.