I've never been a Harari fan, but this just scales new heights in vapid prophesizing. Briefly, human notions of free will are obsolete (or even dangerous!) because AI will get to the point it can influence us into doing or buying anything.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy …
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His argument: in principle, sensors could detect neurotransmitter levels based on outside stimuli. You could feed this data into a machine learning model, and spit out predictions. With enough data, the predictions would get so good, the algos would "know" us better than we do
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We're going to face so many other issues before we even get to the level of control Harari describes, it's pointless to talk about that risk vs. others that are far more proximal (like the rise of tribalism, the threat of automation, etc.).
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