What Yuval Noah Harari thinks about Silicon Valley
Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus; lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-founder of Sapienship in 2019.
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2 dated positions, 2017 to c. 2024–2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Yuval Noah Harari has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThese self-correcting mechanisms are costly, but if you want to get the truth, you must invest in them. Silicon Valley thought it was exempt from this historical rule.
↗Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Random House, 2025 paperback edition)books.google.com All 31 from this book
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Their wordsWhat's happening today in places like Silicon Valley is that we are creating artificial intelligence but not artificial consciousness.
↗Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari (TED Dialogues)youtube.com 8th of 12 in this recording