We can split the atom but not distinguish truth. Our information is failing us.
Watch The Big Think Interview with historian and author Yuval Noah Harari.
We belong to a world that is more interconnected, and yet more volatile than ever before. The masses of information that make this connectivity possible present the largest and most pressing threat to humanity, says historian and the best-selling author of Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari.
Sitting down with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Harari discusses the way our information systems are flawed, and how, despite our leaps in technology over the past centuries, we still remain as susceptible to deception and delusion as our ancestors were thousands of years ago. Harari says that if we don’t fix the flaws in our information systems, they could drive us to total disaster.
In an exclusive hour-long interview, the Nexus author discusses truth, AI, fears, our possible future, and key ideas from his new book Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.
