Court Painter & Yuval Noah Harari
What do we know about the human mind? If you don’t understand the human mind, you cannot understand A.I.
We’re on this race to replace. Not just ultimately trying to replace all jobs. There’s a race to replace human relationships. The attention economy is shifting more towards an attachment economy.
Court Painter & Max Tegmark
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel of how to put safety standards on an industry because we’ve done it in every American industry except A.I.
Harari and Tegmark on Humanity and A.I.
Yuval Noah Harari, Historian, Philosopher & Bestselling Author and Max Tegmark, Co-Founder, Future of Life Institute; Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)discuss human agency, governing A.I. and the future of humanity with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua at Bloomberg House in Davos on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum.
Edited from video : spoken text by Yuval Noah Harari .
A.I. is the biggest psychological and social experiment in history and we are conducting it and nobody has any idea what the consequences will be.
To change the world, to change history, you don’t need superintelligence. Very dumb intelligence is still enough to change history.
Look at social media, which is controlled by very, very primitive A.I. and how social media changed society, politics, psychology over the last ten years or so. So we don’t really need, superintelligence, even quite primitive A.I. is sufficient to change history and society. I don’t know when we reach the point, but I’m sure that in the next decade or so, we will have to deal with a new wave of immigration… A.I. Immigration.
That we will have hundreds of millions of AI immigrants coming from only two countries, China and the US. And, you know, it’s strange, the U.S. still telling countries, close your borders to human immigrants, but open them wide to A.I. immigrants.
And the big question is, how does society, human society, adapt to a giant wave of immigration from a different species?
Democracy’s ideally suited to survive this because we are going to make mistakes with A.I., with the way we develop it, the way we deploy it. And we need a self-correcting mechanism. We need a mechanism that says, okay, we made a mistake. The best mechanism we know is democracy.
Court Painter & portraits of Sam Altman CEO of Open AI