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October 5, 2018

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Does Technology Favor Tyranny?

_{Part One: Deconstructing Yuval Harari’s Silly Forecast of AI’s Future Impact} _{Jay Richards
October 5, 2018

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Will infotech and biotech erode human agency, subvert human desires, and render free-market economics obsolete? At first glance, there looks to be a wide gap between the future of AI and the destruction of democracy. Some futurists claim to have jumped that chasm. In a cheery little column published by the Atlantic, Yuval Noah Harari posits AI will ultimately destroy democracy and favor Digital Dictatorships. What is his argument and does it hold water?

Show Notes

“Why Technology Favors Tyranny” by Yuval Noah Harari’s in The Atlantic

01:05 | Introducing Jay Richards
03:00 | Yuval Noah Harari’s view of the future
06:30 | Democracy and Tyranny
07:56 | Ownership of data
08:25 | Responding to Harari
09:50 | Survival of Democracy and military technology
11:00 | World War II and Man in the High Castle
12:24 | Harari and ordinary people
15:45 | A new useless class
16:50 | Bespoke labor
18:30 | Moravec’s paradox
21:40 | Democracy and the Free Market