Yuval Noah Harari and Yoshua Bengio on the Future of AI and Humanity

This is the summary, insight, and analysis of the Yuval Noah Harari and Yoshua Bengio interview on AI. They comment on the questions about what to expect and what actions to take to shape the inevitable AI future.

The AI revolution is here and it will be more consequential than most others either improving our lives immensely or having catastrophic consequences since we have currently no control over its future.

The former, Yuval Noah Harari, is a world-renowned philosopher and historian who became world-famous starting with his book, Sapiens.

The latter, Yoshua Bengio, is known as one of the Godfathers of AI.

In the 40-minute interview, Yuval believes we need to immediately start regulating and putting guardrails around the development of AI as we do to money or other developments that have deep impacts on human life.

Now, there is almost none.

Yuval uses the analogy of money. Counterfeiting money is banned and has extremely harsh…