While everyone is busy with elections: the major threat Israel might miss

Lior Novik warns in an opinion piece that Israel is stuck in a political deadlock amid the artificial intelligence revolution, which requires cross-party cooperation to address its implications for the job market, security, and privacy.

Lior Novik writes in an opinion piece in Maariv that Israel is mired in a political stalemate precisely as the world enters a new technological era of artificial intelligence. According to him, the technological revolution is expected to transform the job market, security, and privacy, and requires elected officials to cooperate. The article compares the current revolution to the first industrial revolution and warns of widespread layoffs of programmers in favor of machines. It calls for a comprehensive public debate on internet regulations, use of digital devices, and registration of robots. The article concludes with an evolutionary analogy to mammoth hunting as a demand for extensive human cooperation.