(LifeSiteNews) — World Economic Forum (WEF) senior adviser Yuval Noah Harari recently advocated on CNN for the censorship of speech on social media under the pretext of regulating AI.
Asked by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria whether social media companies require “significant regulation” to curb supposedly false narratives and “disinformation,” Harari replied, “Yes, we need regulation. And the regulation is not about harming the freedom of speech of human beings. It’s about regulating the algorithms and the bots. Freedom of speech is a human right. It’s not a bot right.”
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“It’s the responsibility of people who run large media companies to make the right investments,” Harari said. “The problem is not freedom of speech. The problem is that there are algorithms on Twitter, Facebook, and so forth that deliberately promote information that captures our attention even if it’s not true.”
Harari believes that algorithms are one way in which AI amplifies such “falsehoods” on the internet, and also claimed that AI “is capable of creating content by itself,” and even that it could “escape our control,” ignoring the fact that AI-generated content like algorithms are always ultimately a product of human programming.
This means that, contrary to his claim, Harari is actually interested in curbing the speech of individuals who may use AI as a tool to communicate such speech. In support of his claim that he wishes merely for the regulation of “bots” and not human beings,” Harari asserted to Zakaria that AI “isn’t a tool” but is “an agent.”
An example of AI-generated content that Harari and Zakaria might consider to be “disinformation,” but which is overwhelmingly recognized as satire created by an individual with the help of AI, is an audio montage of Kamala Harris retweeted by Elon Musk on X that takes jabs at her as a presidential candidate. In response, far-left California Gov. Gavin Newsom soon after vowed to make AI voice manipulation illegal in his state.
Despite criticism of AI’s role in so-called “disinformation,” Harari, a homosexual atheist Jew and transhumanist philosopher, has praised AI for its ability to potentially create a new religion that he would consider to be “actually correct.”
“Just think about a religion whose holy book is written by an AI. That could be a reality in a few years,” Harari said while speaking with Portuguese-American journalist Pedro Pinto last year in Lisbon, Portugal. The transhumanist mocked the idea that the Bible, which was compiled by Catholic bishops under divine guidance at the Council of Rome in 382, “came from some superhuman intelligence.”
Harari holds a variety of bizarre views that attack the core tenets of Christianity. In recent years, he has said that “homo sapiens” are a “post-truth species.” He has also remarked that “humans” are no longer “mysterious souls” but merely “hackable animals.”
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