What Yuval Noah Harari thinks about robotics

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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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   Our readingThe real danger of AI is not the physical robot threat most science fiction imagined

   Their wordsThe danger this poses is very different from that imagined by most science fiction, which has largely focused on the physical threats posed by intelligent machines.

   ↗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