Yuval Noah Harari

arms.

The thing in Harari's book, Sapiens, they say the bigger the brain, the bigger the drain.

OK, so the bigger, the more you have to use your brain, the skinnier your arms are going to become, because that's what happens, because the body delegates more energy more power more power and more calories to the brain we only have four percent of our body mass is our brain but it takes 25 of our energy so that's why you see the grays they have proportionately much bigger heads and much skinnier bodies think about that

and um the thing i would like to uh tell people is that Hitler's Thule Society, they believed that it was the survivors of Atlantis that had gone under the ice sheet.

So Seb Alex, you are an animal rights activist.

You're also an author, a photographer.

You have a really strong following.

Also as an animal rights activist, you're also... accept the the vegan label and that's a conversation we're gonna have

So I'm mostly vegan.

I eat plant-based and I started eight years ago.

Actually, I read a book called Sapiens and the author Yuval Noah Harari is a vegan.

But he just has the approach of, okay, look at things with a fresh eye.

The new mission is to invent those positions where we will not be outperformed by algorithms and robots, such as virtual world designers or AI psychologists.

The historian and big thinker Yuval Noah Harari predicts that a new class of people might emerge around 2050, the useless class.

These would be the people that are not just unemployed, but ultimately unemployable.

This perhaps sounds like a gloomy outlook, but the same technology that takes over the previous jobs of these people will also hopefully be able to provide for them through some scheme of universal basic income.

Worries often emerge in the wake of these forecasts.

But what will people do when they don't need to work or are even unable to work? How do we find meaning in such a world? Will everyone feel futile and get depressed or go crazy? Mr Harari has spent time reflecting on this too.

One answer he gives is that we might spend increasing amounts of time within virtual 3D worlds.

Contrary to what many may believe, this is in fact an incredibly old solution.

And of course, we see at the societal level, we are delegating so much of our art, so much of our culture.

Yuval Noah Harari has this very beautiful and impassionate talk where he talks about what would it mean for... you know, an AI to take over our language and everything that we create through language, our laws, our literature, our, you know, so I think, yeah, that's where, that's where I think we're, we're sort of caving and it's like a boiling frog effect, as you were saying, you know, it can start small with like, I'm just, you know, not gonna bother, you know, actually emailing my, I don't know, first it's your coworker, then it's your relative and so on.

And I think that that will erode, of course, a lot of our abilities and skills that will make us human in the end and give us purpose and meaning.

One thing that we're starting to see, or at least that one could suspect that we're starting to see is an erosion of social skills and disengaging from actual human contact in favor of interacting with AI companions.

Because that's like an employee from a different planet.

Like Yuval Noah Harari said that it's not like it's an artificial intelligence, it's like alien intelligence.

And he didn't talk about extraterrestrial skills.

He just made it clear that AI doesn't think like people.

And replace that system with the new emergency system where, as Elon Musk says, you won't have poverty in the future.

You'll just have a credit system and you'll be able to sit at home on universal high income, which basically is the same thing as Yuval Noah Harari at the World Economic Forum once said.

He dreams of a world where people are placated on drugs playing video games at home, not ever having to work.

I've seen Black Mirror.

The book has sold more than 30 million copies.

Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens also began as lectures to his history students.

The comedian Jerry Seinfeld tests each joke on a crowd before he keeps it.

After his sitcom ended, he retired his old jokes in an HBO special.

And so I think a vision where we respect each other and the planet is my vision.

It's like author Yuval Noah Harari talks about, the power of human imagination, to redirect our ingenuity from self-destruction to self-creation.

And the TPNW is about self-creation.

And it is the countries that have signed the treaty and it is civil society, including faith communities, that are showing that leadership.