Harari warns AI could soon reduce humans to 'the cows of the future'
EstablishmentFun3205 · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit-shared interview clip shows historian Yuval Noah Harari reiterating his warning that AI may soon relegate humans to a status akin to livestock: "Cows know that humans exist... they can see them, but the cows don't understand them" — implying humans may end up unable to comprehend the superior intelligence running their world.
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