Harari’s Follies at Davos: Setting the Record Straight on AI and Humanity, by Scott Ventureyra

At the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, bestselling author and historian Yuval Noah Harari delivered a presentation to globalist elites on the future and power of AI. It was littered with unsubstantiated and grandiose claims. The boldest claim was that “the most important thing to know about AI is that it’s not just another tool. It is an agent.”

He then provided an analogy suggesting that while a knife is a tool for human uses, AI is “a knife that can decide by itself whether to cut salad or to commit murder.” As if attaching agency to AI was not enough, he continued by attributing creativity to AI by explaining that it has the capability to “invent new kinds of knives as well as new kinds of music, medicine, and money” and that it even has the capability to “lie and manipulate.” I believe that these bold claims form the foundation for his larger claim that if thinking is essentially the ordering of words, then AI is capable of thinking better than many humans. He asserted that AI will take over in anything related to language, including law, poetry, and religion. …

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