"We are the cows of the future": Yuval Noah Harari's AI theory

Yuval Noah Harari compared humanity's future under AI to the lives of cows under human control in an interview with Czech public television. He warned that AI will take over financial and bureaucratic systems, creating complexity beyond human understanding, thereby reducing human influence over critical decisions.

Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari compared humanity's future under artificial intelligence to the lives of cows under human control in an interview with Czech public television. Harari argued that just as cows are affected by stock and bond markets without understanding them, humans may become dependent on AI systems whose logic is beyond their comprehension. He warned that the danger is not a physical attack by robots, but a gradual takeover of financial and bureaucratic systems by AI, creating complexity that will make it difficult for humans, both experts and laypeople, to understand and control the decisions shaping society. Harari concluded: "We are the cows of the future."