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Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information
“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.” Yuval Noah Harari sees one glaring problem at the heart of our quest for an AI-led world: The incompatibility of humans and the always-on information cycles. Harari cautions that organic beings trying to force themselves into these 24/7 inorganic cycles will eventually fail, and bring about their own destruction. His solution? Clear delineation of inorganic information, and a strict diet for your consumption.
Chapters: 00:00 If humans are so smart, how’d we get here? 00:55 Automatic machines vs AI 02:21 How new tech changes our social fabric 03:29 Organic cycles based on human rhythms 04:57 Inorganic cycles based on AI 06:18 Should AIs become legal persons? 07:46 The huge risks of an AI-centered world 08:15 The biggest misconception about information 09:37 How to safeguard ourselves in the era of AI 11:05 Self-correction and the banning of fake humans 12:24 Go on an information diet
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