This is a transcript of a conversation between two individuals discussing the importance of regulating AI. The conversation covers various topics related to AI, including its potential to make autonomous decisions and generate new ideas, concerns about the impact of AI on human culture and psychology, and the need for institutions and regulations to ensure the responsible development and deployment of AI. The conversation also touches on the use of AI in military applications and the role of technology companies in promoting AI safety and ethics.
Some possible facts extracted from the text are:
1. Yuval Harare is a professor of history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a best-selling author of books such as Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.
2. AI is the first tool in history that can make decisions by itself and create new ideas by itself.
3. AI has the potential to end human history as we know it and create a new culture dominated by an alien intelligence.
4. AI can also be used to create totalitarian regimes that can monitor and manipulate people on an unprecedented scale.
5. There are some possible ways to regulate and direct AI in a good direction, such as creating institutions, taxing tech companies, banning bots from social media, and preventing counterfeiting humans.
6. Human beings still have a few years to control the direction of AI and to develop their own minds and consciousness.
7. The speaker suggests that artificial intelligence should be combined with anthropology intelligence to create augmented intelligence.