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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in world history and macro-historical processes. He is renowned for his bestselling book "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," which explores the cognitive and societal evolution of Homo sapiens.…
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Taken to extremes, such a pursuit of accuracy may lead us to try to represent the world on a one-to-one scale, as in the famous Jorge Luis Borges story 'On Exactitude in Science' (1946). In this story Borges tells of a fictitious ancient empire that became obsessed with producing ever more accurate …
Even at the present moment, in the embryonic stage of the AI revolution, computers already make decisions about us—whether to give us a mortgage, to hire us for a job, to send us to prison. This trend will only increase and accelerate, making it more difficult to understand our own lives. Can we tru…