Artificial Intelligence, Automation and the End of Western Thought

This blog post is a summary and analysis of the speech given by Yuval Harari at Davos in January 2020. "The automation revolution is not a watershed that settles down again but a cascade of bigger and bigger disruptions." When Yuval Harari speaks, people tend to listen. Not least when it comes to the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on every walk of life from politics to biology, government and education. His position is wide-ranging but boils down to a few essential arguments.