Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’
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Summary
The big technological revolutions in history have always led to new social revolutions.
Now that AI is emerging as a superintelligent agent that has the potential to be far superior to humans not only in terms of cognitive abilities but also in emotional intelligence, the biggest challenge is how to share the planet with this new superintelligence.
While technologists and businesspeople are rushing to develop superintelligent AI, they probably do not fully trust it.
The development of superintelligence should be done with mutual trust between humans.
In a fully free market, truth is buried by fiction and illusions; the same can be said of the current situation with the spread of information through the internet and AI.
The advent of AI makes it even harder to get out of information cocoons and back in touch with reality.
Even if AI is creative and comes up with ideas that we could not have thought of, it can also manipulate us with misleading and junk information.
We need to strengthen trust between humans before coping with the AI revolution.
Self-correcting mechanisms are needed to avoid fatal results when mistakes are made during AI development and use.
