Can mindfulness save us from the menace of artificial intelligence?

Yuval Noah Harari has scored phenomenal success with both his "brief history of humankind", Sapiens, published in 2014, and its follow-up, his "brief history of tomorrow", Homo Deus, of 2016. Now he offers us his take on the present, couched as advice, almost self-help. It's a lesser book than its predecessors, being, beneath this urgent format, a ragbag of articles from papers and magazines, unified by his authorship but not conceived as a whole. The first chapters are the most forceful. He warns that "no remaining human job will ever be safe from the threat of future automation".