Harari says AI can write civilization's code, so humans may trust AI over each other
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Orange AI (@oran_ge) reposts a summary of a Yuval Noah Harari talk saying AI has cracked the code of human civilization.
According to the post, Harari argues that language-based trust systems such as politics, economics and law make up civilization's underlying code, and that AI is the first technology able to write that code itself.
The post says humans may come to trust AI rather than each other, and calls this the greatest challenge facing humanity. The report is a repost of a summary, not a transcript of Harari's remarks, and no further sources are cited.
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Orange AI@oran_geXYuval Noah Harari says AI has cracked the code of human civilizationAIOrange AI (@oran_ge) reposts a summary of a Yuval Noah Harari talk arguing that language-based trust systems such as politics, economics, and law form civilization's underlying code. The post says AI is the first technology that can write that code itself, so humans may come to trust AI rather than each other. It calls this the greatest challenge facing humanity.

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