U.Today – Prominent Israeli historian, philosopher and author of several best-selling books (e.g. Sapience) Yuval Noah Harari has shared his opinion on artificial intelligence and other financial tools. He gave BTC a high valuation, comparing it to art. This happened after he criticized Bitcoin several months ago.
The famous intellectual also made a surprising prediction about artificial intelligence, suggesting his own interpretation of this famous abbreviation.
“Bitcoin is an art form,” and AI stands for “alien intelligence”
Yuval Noah Harari has published part 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 game-changer in this area and revolutionize the field of finance.
Harari said that the abbreviation AI should not be interpreted as “artificial intelligence” but as “alien intelligence.” He said that there is nothing artificial about AI. Its new forms are developing on their own. The philosopher is sure that AI is capable of producing a different kind of creativity and “precisely because of that, it is really going to be a turning point in many fields.”
Harari believes that this will also be true in the field of finance. The philosopher considers financial devices to be “a kind of art form.” In this regard, he named financial instruments such as bonds, currencies and bitcoins, stating that the people who came up with the idea of creating them demonstrated extraordinary creativity. “It is a kind of art. Very creative, very imaginative,” he said. Therefore, Harari hopes that in the future artificial intelligence will invent “new types of financial devices that no human being would ever imagine creating.”
Harari's previous criticism of Bitcoin
In May of this year, Yuval Noah Harari was somewhat critical of Bitcoin, despite his aforementioned comparison of BTC to art. Harari said that Bitcoin is unfortunately a “currency of distrust” as its power and user support is based on distrust of human institutions, namely banks.
The intellectual said that this is “an alarming development” since money was invented with the aim of creating trust between strangers.
“I understand the reasons for this mistrust, but it is an alarming fact,” Harari said.
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