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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