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In an interview, Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, argued that AI is not a tool but an agent capable of making decisions independently. He predicts that in the next 10 to 20 years, AI will evolve financial and legal systems that humans cannot comprehend, plunging humanity into "collective cognitive decline." He warned that deepfakes can already fool biological sisters who have known each other for fifty years, and advocated that social media content should carry "mental nutrition labels" just as food packaging does, and that AI responsibility must be bound to humans and companies, and cannot be shirked by assuming legal-person status. The interview content was published successively by TMTPost·AGI on November 1, 2026, and 36Kr·AI on November 2.
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Nov 2
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Yuval Noah Harari in-depth interview: AI is not a tool but an agent, and humanity will fall into collective cognitive decline
Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, argued in an interview that AI is not a tool but an agent capable of making decisions independently, and that in the next 10-20 years AI will evolve financial and legal systems that humans cannot comprehend, leading humanity into collective cognitive decline. Citing the example of an AI deepfake of his own speech that his own sister watched for 25 minutes without being able to tell it was fake, he pointed out that truth is being replaced by cheap lies, and argued that AI responsibility must be bound to humans and companies, and cannot be shirked by granting AI legal-person status.
Nov 1
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Harari in-depth interview: AI is not a tool but an agent, and humanity will fall into collective cognitive decline
Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, proposed in an interview that AI is not a tool but an agent capable of making independent decisions; in the next 10-20 years, AI will iterate financial and legal systems that humans cannot understand, and humanity will fall into "collective cognitive decline." He warned that deepfakes can already fool biological sisters who have known each other for fifty years, and advocated that social media content should carry "mental nutrition labels" like food packaging, and that AI responsibility must be bound to humans and companies.
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