Harari: "We are the cows of the future" — unable to grasp the AI systems ruling us
LuizaJarovsky · x · 2026-10-20
Luiza Jarovsky quotes Yuval Noah Harari from an interview: "We are the cows of the future... Just as cows can't understand the financial system that controls their lives today, we will not be able to understand the AI financial system that will control our lives in 10 or 20 years." The full conversation is available on YouTube.
Her response: "I hope we'll be cows that are good at governing AI" — a half-joking call for humans to build governance capacity rather than passively accept this fate.
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