"Whatever this book has taught us, there's a pre-AI world and a post-AI world. However it plays out, nothing will ever be the same."
The future isn't unified. AI is splitting the world into competing digital empires. In the final chapter of Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores how nations are building separate AI ecosystems, using different hardware, software, and data to shape their own technological realities.
The Silicon Curtain is closing, fragmenting the global internet into walled-off domains. What happens when AI systems no longer speak the same language? And who gets left behind in the race for control?
Mark and Jeremy break down the tipping points, the digital arms race, and the unintended consequences of AI in the final chapter of Nexus. You'll laugh about it all one day.
In this episode, you'll learn:-
- What is The Silicon Curtain
- What is Data Colonialism
- What is The AI turning point
- What is The mind-body problem in the digital age
- How digital personas could lead us to accept AI as ‘real’ people
- The unintended consequences of AI development
AI is a force pulling civilization in opposite directions. What happens next? No one knows. But one thing is certain: we'll all about to find out together.
Please enjoy the show.
And don't have nightmares.
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Chapters
(00:00) Disruptors and curious minds
(01:54) My AI Epiphany
(02:54) The precondition for cooperation isn't similarity. It's the ability to exchange information
(04:28) AI Pessimism - How many nefarious bad actors do you need
(05:50) The Liverpool Manchester Train moment for AI
(06:48) Google was an AI company in 2002
(08:21) Cats and consciousness
(08:55) ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
(11:50) The mind-body problem and online identities
(15:26) Veneer theory and realism
(17:22) Data colonialism and digital "cocoons"
(21:58) Epilogue: Create wiser networks
(24:13) How to be wise in the age of AI
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