{"id":16746,"date":"2026-05-27T00:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=16746"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:42:23","slug":"2026-05-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2026-05-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Harari and Tegmark on Humanity and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11 a.m., May 31, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<style>\n  .book-title {<br \/>\n    font-style: italic;<br \/>\n    font-weight: bold;<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<p>Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we discuss Harari and Tegmark on Humanity and AI.<br \/>\nThis Sunday we will watch and discuss <span class=\"book-title\">Harari and Tegmark on Humanity and AI<\/span>, a video in which Yuval Noah Harari and Max Tegmark discuss human agency, governing AI and the future of humanity with Bloomberg&#8217;s Francine Lacqua at Bloomberg House in Davos on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum.<br \/>\nYuval Noah Harari is an Israeli Historian, Philosopher, and the Bestselling Author of <span class=\"book-title\">Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind<\/span>, <span class=\"book-title\">Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow<\/span>, <span class=\"book-title\">21 Lessons for the 21st Century<\/span>, and <span class=\"book-title\">Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI<\/span>. His many published works examine themes of free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, suffering and the role of storytelling in human evolution.<br \/>\nMax Tegmark is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing global catastrophic risks from advanced technologies.<br \/>\nFrancine Lacqua is an Italian and British journalist, television anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television. 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