Expert warns that artificial intelligence could soon be able to ‘hack’ human beings | TheHill – The Hill

A world-renowned historian and philosopher is warning that humanity needs to begin regulating artificial intelligence and data collection globally or risk being hacked.

In an upcoming interview with CBSs 60 Minutes, bestselling author Yuval Harari said the nations and large corporations that control the biggest share of data on consumers will control the world in the future, noting that the raw data is worth much more than money.

The world is increasingly kind of cut up into spheres of data collection, of data harvesting. In the Cold War, you had the Iron Curtain. Now we have the Silicon Curtain, that the world is increasingly divided between the USA and China, Harari told Anderson Cooper.

Harari said the increasing sophistication of AI used in algorithms concentrated in the hands of a powerful few could ultimately result in the manipulation of people.

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Netflix tells us what to watch and Amazon tells us what to buy. Eventually within 10 or 20 or 30 years such algorithms could also tell you what to study at college and where to work and whom to marry and even whom to vote for, Harari told Cooper.

To hack a human being is to get to know that person better than they know themselves. And based on that, to increasingly manipulate you, he said.

Harari emphasized the need for countries to work together to put concrete regulations in place to avoid such a scenario and ensure data and AI arent used to exercise control over the public.

One of his recommendations is to make sure the data isnt consolidated in place, adding Thats a recipe for a dictatorship.

The author noted the rise of AI can also be incredibly beneficial to society, but the question is what is being done with it and who regulates it.

Harari is the author of the 2014 global bestseller Sapiens.

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