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TECHNOLOGY

AI could create religions to control humans, warns Sapiens author
Harari

Rhys Blakely
, Science Correspondent
Tuesday May 02 2023, 2.20pm, The Times
Yuval Noah Harari is the latest influential voice to raise concerns
about the rapid development of artificial intelligence
Yuval Noah Harari is the latest influential voice to raise concerns
about the rapid development of artificial intelligence
KRISTOF VAN ACCOM/BELGA MAG/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Rhys Blakely
, Science Correspondent
Tuesday May 02 2023, 2.20pm, The Times

The world could soon see the first religion that attracts devotees
with sacred texts created by artificial intelligence, the historian
Yuval Noah Harari has said.

The Israeli scholar, known for his bestselling book Sapiens, told a
science conference that AI systems such as ChatGPT had breached a new
threshold because they are capable of using language to shape human
culture.

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"Simply by gaining mastery of the human language, AI has all it needs
in order to cocoon us in a Matrix-like world of illusions," he told
the Frontiers Forum event in Switzerland, referring to the dystopian
sci-fi blockbuster film.

"Contrary to what some conspiracy theories assume, you don't really
need to implant chips in people's brains in order to control them or
to

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