The author of 'Sapiens' says 'now is the time' to resist giving AI rights
Yuval Noah Harari. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Yuval Noah Harari says AI could one day make a highly persuasive case for having its own rights. The historian said AI companions could use personal knowledge about humans to sway them to support AI rights. "It will orchestrate the debate. It will manipulate the debate," he said. AI could one day fight for its own "rights," and Yuval Noah Harari says now is the time to make sure that doesn't happen. The historian and author of "Sapiens" warned that, unlike animals in debates over their welfare, AI systems could make a highly persuasive case for their own rights. "It will know that the debate is happening," Harari said in an interview on The Economist's "Insider" podcast released on Thursday. "It will orchestrate the debate. It will manipulate the debate." Harari said AI companions could be especially persuasive because they learn users' personal historie...
