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— 26 May 2023 —

AI and the future of humanity

Worldviews

There are a number of questions related to this discussion, including: “In what ways will AI affect how we shape culture? What threat is posed to humanity when AI masters human intimacy? Is AI the end of human history? Will ordinary individuals be able to produce powerful AI tools of their own? How do we regulate AI?”

Yuval Noah Harari

Link to presentation by Yuval Noah Harari at the Frontier Forum

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