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Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari's file: history, information networks, AI risk, Sapienship, and the public philosopher asking what happens when machines join the storytellers.
Harari moved from academic history into global-scale arguments about human stories, technology and power, then increasingly focused those arguments on artificial intelligence, information networks and the possibility that nonhuman systems could become actors in history.
HOW THE HELL DID YUVAL NOAH HARARI GET HERE?
2002
THE HISTORIAN LEAVES OXFORD WITH A PHD
Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002 before teaching history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
RECEIPTS: Yuval Noah Hararifirst-party
Sep 4, 2018
THE HISTORY BOOKS TURN TOWARD THE PRESENT
Harari published 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, explicitly taking on technological disruption, AI, privacy and other immediate global questions.
RECEIPTS: Penguin Random Housereported
2019
THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL BUILDS AN ORGANIZATION
Harari and Itzik Yahav co-founded Sapienship, a social-impact organization focused on research, education and storytelling around large global challenges.
RECEIPTS: Yuval Noah Hararifirst-party
2023
HARARI JOINS THE FRONTIER-AI RISK ARGUMENT
Harari joined leading AI researchers and public thinkers as a coauthor of Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress, placing him directly in the debate over frontier-system risk.
RECEIPTS: Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligencereported
Sep 10, 2024
NEXUS PUTS AI INSIDE THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION
Harari published Nexus, tracing information networks from the Stone Age to AI and arguing that artificial intelligence represents a new kind of information network with potentially existential consequences.
RECEIPTS: Penguin Random Housereported