Self proclaimed Historian Yuval Noah Harari summarizes and speculates on AI and humanities future

🚨Yuval Harari discussing Qanon and Q Posts
He starts talking about Qanon at the ten minute and 25 second mark and boy is he scared...
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”The QAnon Cult has formed around anonymous online texts, known as Q drops. Followers of this cult, which are millions now in US & the rest of the world collected, revered & interpreted these Q drops as some kind of new scriptures as a sacred text.” In this keynote and Q&A, Self proclaimed Historian Yuval Noah Harari summarizes and speculates on 'AI and the future of humanity'. There are a number of questions related to this discussion, including: "In what ways will AI affect how we shape culture? What threat is posed to humanity when AI masters human intimacy? Is AI the end of human history? Will ordinary individuals be able to produce powerful AI tools of their own? Yuval Noah Harari offered his reflections and speculations on “AI and the future of humanity.”

Harari used the controversial QAnon to explore the potential consequences of new AI tools capable of mass-producing “political manifestos, fake news stories, and even holy scriptures for emerging cults.”

Harari described QAnon as a cult in his speech, where its followers interpreted anonymous online texts known as “Q drops” as sacred scriptures.

“In recent years, the politically influential QAnon cult has formed around anonymous online texts known as ‘Q drops,'” said Harari.

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“Now, followers of this cult, which are millions now in the US and the rest of the world, collected, revered, and interpreted these ‘Q drops’ as some kind of new scriptures, as a sacred text.”

While groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) have been linked to actual acts of violence, QAnon has not been implicated in any such incidents.

Harari posed a thought-provoking question: “What if we witness the emergence of cults and religions whose revered texts were written by non-human intelligence?” He suggested that with the rapid advancement of AI, it is conceivable that such a scenario could become a reality in the near future.

“Now, to the best of our knowledge, all previous Q drops were composed by human beings and bots only helped to disseminate these texts online. But in the future, we might see the first cults and religions in history whose revered texts were written by a non-human intelligence. And of course, religions throughout history claimed that their books were written by a non-human intelligence. This was never true before. This could become true very, very quickly.” Also how do we regulate AI?"

The event is was organized and produced by the Frontiers Forum, dedicated to connecting global communities across science, policy, and society to accelerate global science related initiatives.
It was produced and filmed with support from Impact, on April 29, 2023, in Montreux, Switzerland.

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' (2014), 'Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow' (2016), '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' (2018), and the series 'Sapiens: A Graphic History' (launched in 2020, co-authored with David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave).

Yuval Noah Harari speaks internationally and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.