Israeli historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari, during a speech at the Frontiers Forum in Switzerland, said that in order for artificial intelligence to become a threat to the survival of human civilization, it must neither be conscious nor be able to control the objects of the physical world.. According to the scientist, this is how the threat from AI is presented, which is shown in science fiction films..

But, according to Harari, recently AI tools have penetrated the public plane, which pose a threat to the survival of our civilization from an unexpected side..

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“Since AI can learn and improve itself, even its developers do not know all the capabilities of what they have created and are themselves surprised by the emerging abilities and qualities of these tools,” the scientist said..

The rapidly growing ability of AI to write texts, create drawings and music is widely known.. But there are other directions: creating deepfakes with voices and images of people. But more importantly, new AI technologies can create deep and emotional relationships with people..

“When we consider all these abilities together, as a package, they boil down to one very important thing: the ability to manipulate and generate a language of communication using words, images and sounds.. The most important part of the ongoing AI revolution is that the neural network masters language at a level that surpasses the average person.. And thanks to this, AI receives a key that can open all our institutions: from banks to temples.. Because language is the tool we use to give instructions to our bank and at the same time transmit divine visions from our brain,” Harari said..

He added that another angle from which to look at the situation is to understand that AI " Since language has been the operating system of every culture in history.

" We use language to create mythology and laws, gods and money, art and science, friendship and nations.. Human rights are not biological, they are not in our DNA. Human rights are something we have created with language, telling stories and writing down laws…Money is not a biological or physical reality. Banknotes are worthless pieces of paper, at the moment 95% of money is not even banknotes, it's just electronic information in computers that is transferred from one place to another. What gives money value - the stories that bankers, finance ministers and crypto investors tell us,” said Harari.

The scientist also suggested imagining what would happen if we lived in a world in which most of the stories, melodies, images, laws and decisions were developed by a non-human, alien intelligence that knows the weaknesses and addictions of the human mind.. He also knows how to form deep and possibly even intimate relationships with people..

In games like chess, no human can beat the computer.. And what will happen if the same situation develops in art, economics, politics and even religion? Harari added that when people talk about the dangers of ChatGPT, they worry that students will use it to write essays.. But such experiences close the whole picture..

“Think about the next US presidential campaign. And try to imagine the impact of new AI technologies that will be used to write manifestos and fake news,” said the scientist..

Harari noted that the more time we communicate with bots, the better they get to know us and understand how to build messages in a way that influences our political or economic views.. And AI can influence our views due to the fact that it has already learned to build deep relationships with people..

“In order to create fake intimacy with a person, AI does not have to have feelings itself, it only needs to be able to make us feel so that we become attached to it.. In June 2022, there was a famous incident when a Google engineer announced that the chatbot he started working with began to feel. This controversial statement cost him his job.. But the most interesting thing was not this claim, which was most likely false, but the fact that he was willing to risk and probably lose his job for the sake of the chatbot. If AI can influence people to lose their jobs, what else can it do "

He also noted that in any political confrontation, intimacy is the most effective weapon.. And AI has already gained the ability to build trust with hundreds of millions of people..

Recall that at the end of March, more than a thousand experts, including SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Harari himself and others, signed a letter calling for a pause in the development of advanced artificial intelligence..