Elon Musk and Yuval Noah Hararis views on AI diverge but converge on a common question

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News Summary

  • Elon Musk once warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could become humanity’s greatest existential threat.
  • Now he imagines the same technology making money almost meaningless.
  • Yuval Noah Harari sees a different danger: before AI makes us richer, it may make us less free.
  • Their recent conversations with The Economist offer two contrasting visions.
  • Musk looks at what AI can produce.
  • Harari asks what it might do to human agency.
  • Both agree AI will transform civilization.
  • The question is what humans may lose.
In a conversation with The Economists editorinchief Zanny Minton Beddoes, Musk predicted that AI could surpass the combined intelligence of humanity within about five years.

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