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'Sapiens' author warns that A.I. could erode trust and kill all democracies

He wants to impose strict penalties on developers of runaway A.I.

Fortune

Tech execs should face jail time for letting A.I. bots sneakily pass as humans, says ‘Sapiens’ author

A.I. can "create billions of fake people” and we’ll “need to know whether it’s a real human being" we're talking to, warns Yuval Noah Harari.

Fortune

AI firms should face prison over creation of fake humans, says Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens author tells Geneva summit proliferation of fake people on social media could lead to collapse in democracy

The Guardian - UK

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Could a New Religion Develop around AI?

The hunger to believe in something beyond the self is real. What if bots started creating scripture?

The Walrus

The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation

The challenge seems daunting. But we have overcome terrifying dangers before, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Israeli author: Netanyahu legacy imperiled by judicial plan

The Israeli historian, philosopher and best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may go down in history as the man who destroyed Israel

The Independent UK

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yuval Noah Harari, Salman Rushdie, Rutger Bregman, Elif Shafak, Robin Sharma: Times Litfest 2023 had the biggest names ever at any Litfest!

After a two-year hiatus due to Corona, the Times Literature Festival re-emerged in its physical avatar with a bang this year. On February 11 and 12, 2023, the Times Literature Festival (TLF) was held at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi, and it witnessed the coming together of some…

The Times of India

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I’m more worried about the dangers of natural stupidity than AI: Harari

Philosopher, historian and bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari regularly travels to India to practice Vipassana. “If not for meditation, I’d still be researching medieval military history and not talking about Neanderthals and cyborgs,” he shared during an absorbing session at the Times Litfest 2023. “The key thing when writing big…

The Times of India

‘Holy grail’ wheat gene discovery could feed our overheated world

Harvests that form a vital element of the diets of 4.5 billion people are being devastated by global heating. Now research has found a key to create a heat-resistant variety

The Guardian - UK

Best history books to expand your knowledge, from ancient Egypt to medieval witch hunts

For when you’ve outgrown Horrible Histories...

Evening Standard

The origins of human society are more complex than we thought

The Conversation

To change our future, we should change how we teach history to children

We adults may not be able to unlearn the damaging stories we were told, but we can halt their march through the generations, says author Yuval Noah Harari

The Guardian - UK

‘Hope matters’: Ukrainian and international authors on why literature is important in times of conflict

Ten writers appearing at the Lviv BookForum, run this year in partnership with the Hay festival, discuss why we need books more than ever

The Guardian - UK

Did plants domesticate us?

Scientists are trying to better understand the origins of agriculture, and how we coevolved with our favored crops

Salon

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The Guardian - UK

‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history

Wengrow and his late co-author David Graeber caused a sensation with their revisionist view of humankind’s development. But then came the attacks…

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Yuval Noah Harari’s cultural highlights

The Israeli writer and intellectual on the stage musical he’s seen four times, embracing a gay crown prince and what we can learn from the World Cup

The Conversation

Friday essay: empathy or division? On the science and politics of storytelling

Writers can’t always be trusted when they talk about the power and importance of story. We have a vested interest and can get sentimental, promoting the immense power of story, of narrative, as inherently benign.

The Guardian - UK

Why Vladimir Putin has already lost this war

The Russians may yet conquer Ukraine. But Ukrainians have shown that they will not let them hold it, says historian and author Yuval Noah Harari

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