U.Today – Prominent Israeli historian, philosopher and author of several bestsellers (“Sapience”, for example) Yuval Noah Harari shared his opinion on artificial intelligence, as well as his opinion on other financial tools. He valued BTC high, comparing it to art. This happened after he attacked Bitcoin a few months ago.
The renowned intellectual also made an astonishing prediction about artificial intelligence, offering his own interpretation of the renowned acronym.
“Bitcoin is an art form” and AI stands for “space intelligence”
Yuval Noah Harari published a fragment of a recent interview in which he talks about the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Bitcoin and financial tools. In particular, the scientist spoke about creativity, believing that AI can become a breakthrough in this field and revolutionize the sphere of finance.
Harari stated that the acronym AI should be deciphered not as “artificial intelligence”, but as “alien intelligence”. He said that there is nothing artificial in AI. Its recent forms develop themselves. The philosopher is sure that AI is able to produce a different kind of creativity and “for this very reason it will really change the rules of the game in so many areas”.
Harari believes this will be true even in the financial field. The philosopher considers financial instruments to be “a kind of art form.” He singles out financial instruments like bonds, currencies, and Bitcoin, saying the people who came up with the idea to create them were incredibly imaginative. “It’s a kind of art. Very creative. Very inventive,” he said. That’s why Harari expects AI to come up with “new kinds of financial instruments that no human could imagine creating” in the future.
Harari’s previous criticism of Bitcoin
In May of this year, Yuval Noah Harari was somewhat critical of Bitcoin, despite the aforementioned comparison of BTC to art. Harari said that unfortunately, Bitcoin is a “currency of distrust” because its power and user support is based on distrust of human institutions, i.e. banks.
The intellectual noted that this was an “alarming development” because money was invented to build trust between strangers.
“I understand the reasons for this distrust, but it is a worrying development,” Harari stressed.
