Harari's Nightmare: Meet the Useless Class
from Still Human Hosted by Zalmi
Yuval Noah Harari says the greatest threat of AI is not robots turning against us. It is something quieter. Billions of people with nothing to contribute that a machine couldn't do faster, cheaper, and better. He calls it the useless class. But what if Harari is asking the wrong question? In this episode, we look at what an 89-year-old fisherman in Okinawa, a laid-off engineer in San Francisco, Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz, and Paulo Coelho on the Camino de Santiago all have in common, and what they reveal about the one question AI cannot answer for you. The AI revolution does not make humans useless. What it does is strip away the structure that allowed us to avoid the deepest question of all. What am I for?
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