Yuval Noah Harari is a big-ideas guy. He’s known for writing best-selling books that tackle broad sweeps of history. Harari’s most popular book “Sapiens” has sold 25m copies worldwide. But the historian-cum-philosopher has now turned his attention to AI, which he says is the “biggest psychological and social experiment in human history”.
Harari sat down with Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, to discuss why he believes AI will come to control civilisation—and what it might mean to be human in that world.
