But actually, it's- it's much more frightening than that in a way they will be able to solve more and more problems better than us without having any consciousness, any feelings.Īnderson Cooper: So what does Pfizer want the data of all Israelis for? Now in science fiction, it's often assumed that as computers will become more and more intelligent, they will inevitably also gain consciousness.

They solve problems in a completely different way than us. But computers or artificial intelligence, they don't have consciousness. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things, like pain and pleasure and love and hate. For millions of years, intelligence and consciousness went together.

Yuval Noah Harari: Maybe the biggest thing that we are facing is really a kind of evolutionary divergence. Harari fears we are now the ones at risk of being dominated, by artificial intelligence. Harari says cities like this were only possible because about 70,000 years ago our species - Homo sapiens - experienced a cognitive change that helped us create language, which then made it possible for us to cooperate in large groups and drive Neanderthals and all other less cooperative human species into extinction. He took us to an archeological site called Tel Gezer. in history at Oxford, and lives in Israel, where the past is still very present. Yuval Noah Harari on how he turned his lecture notes into a bestseller 01:05 You're also embraced by a lot of folks in Silicon Valley.Īnderson Cooper: Isn't that sort of a contradiction? His writings have been recommended by President Barack Obama, as well as tech moguls, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.Īnderson Cooper: You raise warnings about technology. He has written two books about the challenges we face in the future - 'Homo Deus' and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' - which along with 'Sapiens' have sold more than 35 million copies and been translated into 65 languages. Harari at Davos in 2018: In the coming generations we will learn how to engineer bodies and brains and minds.

Harari has spent the last few years lecturing and writing about what may lie ahead for humankind. If the new technologies are available only to the rich or only to people from a certain country then Homo sapiens will split into different biological castes because they really have different bodies and- and different abilities. Yuval Noah Harari: One of the dangers is that we will see in the coming decades a process of- of s- of- greater inequality than in any previous time in history because for the first time, it will be real biological inequality.

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari