Billions of dollars are being poured into the development of A.I., with the technology being hailed as a “revolution”—but famed historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari sees it as an “alien species” that could trigger humanity’s extinction.
“A.I. is fundamentally different from anything we’ve seen in history, from any other invention, whether its nuclear weapons or the printing press,” Harari—the bestselling author of Homo Deus and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind—told an audience at CogX Festival in London on Tuesday.
