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by Rhoda Wilson
December 11,
2023
from
TheExpose Website
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In 2015
and 2017,
historian and
philosopher Yuval Noah Harari
discussed how a
massive class of useless people
was being
created.
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The artificial
intelligence revolution
is beginning to
create "the useless class," he said.
When asked if his 2015 book
provided any
solutions, he responded:
"At present, the
best guess we have
is to keep them
[the useless class]
happy with drugs
and computer games."
In 2015,
Yuval Noah Harari published two
books:
Dr. John Lennox, a
renowned Oxford Mathematician and author of '2084
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity',
said Harari concerned him because of his widespread influence.
"He really is an
influencer...
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What he actually has
to say concerns me more because of its inaccuracy and his
reading of history seems, to me, to be very strange," Dr. Lennox
said.
In Homo Deus, Dr.
Lennox said, Harari says that there are two major agenda items for
the 21st century.
"The first is to
solve the technological problem of human death. He regards it as
a technical problem and a technical problem with technical
solutions.
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And then secondly, to
enhance human happiness... [On] enhancing human happiness his
target is, and this is more or less a quote,
'is to turn Homo
sapiens into Homo Deus'.
In other words, turn humans into gods."
Shortly after he released
Homo Deus Harari gave a speech based on his other book
Sapiens at TEDTalks.
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After his speech, Harai
was asked to elaborate on a statement he made in his book Sapiens:
"...new classes and
new class struggles, just as the industrial revolution did."
Harari answered:
"In the industrial
revolution, we saw the creation of a new class of the urban
proletariat.
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And much of the
political and social history of the last 200 years involved what
to do with this class and the new problems and opportunities."
"Now, we see the creation of a new massive class of
useless
people," he said.
"As computers become better and better in more and more fields,
there is a distinct possibility that computers will out-perform
us in most tasks and will make humans redundant.
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And then the big
political and economic question of the 21st century
will be,
'What do we need
humans for?', or at least, 'What do we need
'so many' humans
for...?'"
Harari was then asked
whether there were answers to those questions in his book.
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He responded:
"At present, the best
guess we have is to keep them happy with drugs and computer
games."
He clarified he was not
predicting the future but rather laying out possibilities.
"It's not a prophecy;
it's seeing all kinds of possibilities before us," he said.
As he saw it, there were
only two possibilities; both would result in a massive number of
useless people.
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He said:
"One possibility is
this creation of a new massive class of useless people.
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Another possibility
is the division of humankind into different biological castes,
with the rich being upgraded into virtual gods, and the poor
being degraded to this level of useless people."
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Why
humans run the world
Yuval Noah Harari - TED
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Just over two years later he joined Turkish broadcaster TRT's The
Newsmakers.
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TRT asks in the video
caption:
Thanks to new
technology and artificial intelligence, will we achieve near
immortality, or is the future for the human race a bleak one?
"The three
biggest problems of humankind in the 21st century is the
danger of nuclear war, it's the danger of climate change and
it's the dangers inherent in disruptive technologies
especially bioengineering and artificial intelligence," Harari said.
"We are now gaining really divine powers of creation and
destruction just as according to ancient religions God had
the power to create animals and plants and humans according
to his wishes.
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Now humankind in
the 21st century with bioengineering and
artificial intelligence gains this divine power to engineer
and manufacture life."
According to Harari, the
main products of the 21st century economy will not be
things like textiles, vehicles and weapons.
"The main products
will be bodies and brains and minds.
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We are learning to
design life... we are really upgrading ourselves into gods."
It's not absolutely
certain technology, it's not deterministic and we can still do
something about it, he said.
"But, if we are not
careful then, within the next century - let's say within a
hundred years - we may see humankind splitting into biological
casts...
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With the rise of
bioengineering, it might be possible to translate economic
inequality into biological inequality and then... we will see
humankind splitting into castes."
He again referred to the
creation of "the useless class."
"The
artificial
intelligence revolution is beginning to create the useless
class.
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As computers outperform humans in more and more tasks,
they are likely to push them out of more and more jobs.
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And then the danger
is that you will have millions of people even billions of people
who don't have any economic value and therefore they also don't
have any political power..."
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Humanity
on the Brink?
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