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Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information
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18 minutes
1 week ago
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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Big Think is the leading source of expert-driven, actionable, educational content -- with thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, we help you get smarter, faster. Get actionable lessons from the world’s greatest thinkers & doers. Our experts are either disrupting or leading their respective fields. We aim to help you explore the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century, so you can apply them to the questions and challenges in your own life.
