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Should AI be formally recognized as a national and global security threat? In London, politicians increasingly think so

More than 125 U.K. lawmakers support ControlAI’s campaign, led by Luciana Berger, to have nonhuman superintelligence officially recognized as a national and global security threat.

Fortune

Quote of the Day by Yuval Noah Harari: 'You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana…'- Inspiring life lessons on human belief, critical thinking, and questioning assumptions by the historian, and best-selling author of 'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus'.

Yuval Noah Harari highlights human imagination's power to create abstract beliefs. This capacity allows for societal organization around shared narratives and collective imagination. Humans can believe in invisible future rewards, unlike animals valuing immediate gains. The quote encourages critical thinking about promises and the stories shaping our lives. Understanding this…

The Economic Times

Historian Warns That AI Will Control Religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam

A top historian warns AI could soon dominate Judaism, Christianity and Islam by becoming the ultimate authority on sacred texts. Here is how.

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Grok scandal highlights how AI industry is ‘too unconstrained’, tech pioneer says

‘Godfather of AI’ Yoshua Bengio says firms building powerful systems without appropriate guardrails

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The book that changed my mind – 12 experts share a perspective-shifting read

Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, books are the moments where that shift happens – a sentence that lingers, an argument that unsettles, a story that re-frames how we see the world.…

The Conversation

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Tim Berners-Lee: The internet needs compassion – and I have a solution

We need to regulate the most addictive algorithms, writes Tim Berners-Lee

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Study Shows ChatGPT Can Be Persuaded Like Humans, Breaking Its Own Rules To Insult Researchers And More

A new study reveals that AI models like ChatGPT can be influenced by human persuasion tactics, leading them to break rules and provide restricted information.

Benzinga

20 Life-Changing Books That Will Inspire You and Transform Your Perspective

From classics by Joan Didion and Toni Morrison to recent best-sellers.

Marie Claire

AENG Solution LLC: How a Ukrainian Engineer Is Building an Engineering and Innovation Business in America

Relocating to a new country often means rebuilding both personal and professional life from the ground up. For entrepreneurs and engineers, the challenge extends beyond adaptation to a new culture and regulatory environment – it requires finding ways to apply existing expertise in an unfamiliar market while creating new opportunities…

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Genius or sadist: What the bestselling non-fiction books of the 21st century say about us

IN FOCUS: We’re now a quarter of the way through the century. From habit setting to understanding our humanity, this is what British readers have cared about since the turn of the millennium. The results are surprising, says Hannah Ewens

The Independent UK

Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari review – end of days?

The Sapiens author may be a superb narrative writer, but his apocalyptic pontificating about AI stretches credulity

The Guardian - UK

The Fantastical Scenarios of Yuval Noah Harari: From the Roman Past to the AI Future

In his haste to cram complex events into crisp little episodes, the historian passes over inconvenient details.

Reason

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review – rage against the machine

The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth

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Has AI hacked the operating system of human civilisation? Yuval Noah Harari sounds a warning

Just as artificial intelligence (AI) models are trained on vast data sets to learn and predict, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow have trained us to expect disruptive ideas from bestselling historian Yuval Noah Harari.

International Business Times

Ray Kurzweil's AI Timeline: Human-Level Intelligence by 2029, Singularity by 2045

Ray Kurzweil has been an oracle for AI for several decades and is back with a new book, "The Singularity Is Nearer."

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Exploring The Top 10 Political Thinkers Of The 21St Century

Explore the works of renowned intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, and Thomas Piketty across diverse fields.

Fortune

OpenAI's meltdown: What to know about Sam Altman's ouster, the employee revolt, and Microsoft's plot twist

On Friday afternoon, the OpenAI board fired Altman, saying he has not been “consistently candid” with them. By early Monday morning, he’d been hired by Microsoft.

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The Guardian - UK

AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ financial crisis, says Yuval Noah Harari

Historian and Sapiens author says sophistication of technology makes it difficult to forecast its dangers

The Guardian - UK

Yuval Noah Harari backs critique of leftist ‘indifference’ to Hamas atrocities

Exclusive: Sapiens author among 90 signatories to statement of dismay at ‘extreme moral insensitivity’

Fortune

‘Sapiens’ author says A.I. is an alien threat that could wipe us out

Despite his own dire warnings, famed historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari said there was still time for something to be done to prevent the worst predictions from becoming a reality.

The Hindu

‘Evolution of scientific methodology is possible because of the human desire to know’

ICMR NITM launched "Kshitij: looking beyond the horizon", a lecture series in Belagavi. Nitin Khot delivered the inaugural address on evolutionary biology, contribution of scientists and dangers faced by present generation. ICMR NITM director said series aims to strengthen connections between institution and scholars, and help research be interdisciplinary. Khot…

France 24

'Why Men': A criticism of the inevitability of male dominance

Our Perspective guests are two anthropologists who are challenging established critical thinking that violence, oppression and inequality are the natural order of things. They criticise the well-established work of professors like Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari and Jordan Peterson – claiming that their views on male dominance being…

The Week

What do Netanyahu’s judicial reforms mean for the future of Israel?

Israel has seen some of the largest protests in its history after the country’s parliament, the Knesset, passed the first of a series of bills aimed at overhauling the judiciary.

Fortune

'Sapiens' author warns that A.I. could erode trust and kill all democracies

He wants to impose strict penalties on developers of runaway A.I.

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