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Quotes from Next Phase of Intelligence — Yuval Noah Harari

born 1976 Israel

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Because of the time scale, we have no idea.

Next Phase of Intelligence (2026)

The whole question of "when will AI reach the same level... as human intelligence?" This is ridiculous. It's like asking, "When will airplanes finally be like birds?"

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You cannot run history in a laboratory and see... the social consequences of invent[ion].

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They are not the only reason... for the mess now in the world, but if you think about what extremely primitive AIs did within the human created system... of media, then...

Next Phase of Intelligence (2026)

You cannot test what will be the geopolitical... or cultural implications of a steam engine in a laboratory. It's the same with AI.

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Then you have people who say, "It must be a totalitarian society. Only a totalitarian system like Bolshevism or... Nazism. The immense powers of industry can only be controlled by a totalitarian society."

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European imperialism was one experiment. Some people say, "The only way to build an industrial society is to build an empire. You cannot build an industrial society on the level of one country because you must control the raw material and the markets. You must have an empire!"

Next Phase of Intelligence (2026)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yuval Noah Harari (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.