Yuval Noah Harari: „Man has now become a hackable animal“

The Israeli military-historian Yuval Noah Hariri is author and professor at the History Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Personalities like Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Sebastian Kurz have asked for his services as a source of inspiration and counselor. Klaus Schwab, founder of the WEF and author of the book “Covid 19: The Great Reset” called Harari a brilliant futurologist. In his presentations at the World Economic Forum in 2018 and 2020 or at the 2020 Athens Democratic Forum, Hariri spoke about the technological development and what it meant for society, politics, religion and ideology.

During his presentations he has frequently pointed out that for the first time in human history it has become possible to observe and trace persons every time and everywhere. At very high speed AI algorithms process huge amounts of information with the potential to save all of them and to recognize patters in the data to be used for personality analysis.

Harari says: “A system that understands us better than we understand ourselves can predict our feelings and decisions, can manipulate our feelings and decisions and can ultimately make decisions for us. (Quotation 1 WEF speech 2020)

According to Harari, the Corona-virus-pandemic has opened the door to surveillance under the skin:
“I think, maybe in a couple of decades, when people look back, the thing they will remember from the Covid crisis is – this is the moment, when everything went digital. This was the moment when everything became monitored. That we agreed to be surveilled all the time. Not just in authoritarian regimes, but even in democracies. And maybe most important of it all, this was the moment when surveillance started going under the skin. (…) I think the big process that is happening right now in the world is hacking human beings. The ability to hack humans. To understand deeply what’s happening within you, what makes you go. And for that the most important data is not what you read and who you meet and what you buy; it’s what’s happening inside your body.”

Furthermore, the historian said in an interview in 2020:
“…soon at least some corporations and governments will be able to systematically hack all the people. There’s a lot of talk about hacking computers, e-mails and bank accounts. But we are entering an era of hacking humans. (…) Humans are now hackable animals. You know the whole idea that humans have this soul or spirit, and they have free will. So, whatever I choose whether in the election, or whether in the supermarket, this is my free will. That’s over – free will.”
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