Historian Yuval Harari delivered a chilling warning at World Economic Forum 2026, arguing that AI is no longer a tool but an agent that can think, manipulate, and reshape society. AIs can make decisions by themselves. From legal personhood to culture and identity, Harari questions whether humanity is ready for AI dominance.
He claimed that AIs can think and will dominate financial markets, courts and churches. Political leaders using AI to fight their wars fail to realize AI may defeat them. People may abdicate their decision making to AI, and give up critical thinking.
Harari said that will AI will create new financial systems that humans will not understand. He compared it to a horse that is being sold that does not grasp the meaning of coins in trade.
He said that children will be educated in a new way and that they will have more interaction with AI rather than humans; he commented that it is the biggest and scariest psychological experiment in history and it is being conducted right now.
He warned that we are facing a severe identity crisis and also an immigration crisis with the immigrants being AI systems that he said will be superior to humans. The AI ‘immigrants’ will also takeover jobs and culture and will likely be politically disloyal. He said they will be loyal to a corporation or one of two countries, the US or China. AIs may become legal persons with rights; in the US, corporation are considered legal persons; in New Zealand, rivers have been recognized as legal persons; and in India, certain gods have been granted such recognition.
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From Decrypt:
AI Is Poised to Take Over Language, Law and Religion, Historian Yuval Noah Harari Warns
At Davos, the historian said AI is evolving into an autonomous agent that could eventually force governments to decide whether machines deserve legal recognition.
In brief
Harari said AI should be understood as active autonomous agents rather than a passive tool.
He warned that systems built primarily on words, including religion, law, and finance, face heightened exposure to AI.
Harari urged leaders to decide whether to treat AI systems as legal persons before those choices are made for them.
Historian and author Yuval Noah Harari warned at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday that humanity is at risk of losing control over language, which he called its defining “superpower,” as artificial intelligence increasingly operates via autonomous agents rather than passive tools.
The author of “Sapiens,” Harari has become a frequent voice in global debates about the societal implications of artificial intelligence. He argued that legal codes, financial markets, and organized religion rely almost entirely on language, leaving them especially exposed to machines that can generate and manipulate text at scale.
“Humans took over the world not because we are the strongest physically, but because we discovered how to use words to get thousands and millions and billions of strangers to cooperate,” he said. “This was our superpower.”
Harari pointed to religions grounded in sacred texts, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, arguing that AI’s ability to read, retain, and synthesize vast bodies of writing could make machines the most authoritative interpreters of scripture.
“If laws are made of words, then AI will take over the legal system,” he said. “If books are just combinations of words, then AI will take over books. If religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion.”
In Davos, Harari also compared the spread of AI systems to a new form of immigration, and said the debate around the technology will soon focus on whether governments should grant AI systems legal personhood. Several states, including Utah, Idaho, and North Dakota, have already passed laws explicitly stating that AI cannot be considered a person under the law.
Harari closed his remarks by warning global leaders to act quickly on laws regarding AI and not assume the technology will remain a neutral servant. He compared the current push to adopt the technology to historical cases in which mercenaries later seized power.
“Ten years from now, it will be too late for you to decide whether AIs should function as persons in the financial markets, in the courts, in the churches,” he said. “Somebody else will already have decided it for you. If you want to influence where humanity is going, you need to make a decision now.”
Harari’s comments may hit hard for those fearful of AI’s advancing spread, but not everyone agreed with his framing. Professor Emily M. Bender, a linguist at the University of Washington, said that positioning risks like Harari did only shifts attention away from the human actors and institutions responsible for building and deploying AI systems.
“It sounds to me like it’s really a bid to obfuscate the actions of the people and corporations building these systems,” Bender told Decrypt in an interview. “And also a demand that everyone should just relinquish our own human rights in many domains, including the right to our languages, to the whims of these companies in the guise of these so-called artificial intelligence systems.”
Bender rejected the idea that “artificial intelligence” describes a clear or neutral category of technology.
“The term artificial intelligence doesn’t refer to a coherent set of technologies,” she said. “It is, effectively, and always has been, a marketing term,” adding that systems designed to imitate professionals such as doctors, lawyers, or clergy lack legitimate use cases.
“What is the purpose of something that can sound like a doctor, a lawyer, a clergy person, and so on?” Bender said. “The purpose there is fraud. Period.”
While Harari pointed to the growing use of AI agents to manage bank accounts and business interactions, Bender said the risk lies in how readily people trust machine-generated outputs that appear authoritative—while lacking human accountability.
“If you have a system that you can poke at with a question and have something come back out that looks like an answer—that is stripped of its context and stripped of any accountability for the answer, but positioned as coming from some all-knowing oracle—then you can see how people would want that to exist,” Bender said. “I think there’s a lot of risk there that people will start orienting toward it and using that output to shape their own ideas, beliefs, and actions.”
Technocracy is insidious, heartless and dispassionate. The original definition of Technocracy from the 1930s is “The science of social engineering”. They have the science and they will use it to “engineer” minds to accept their conditioning. Like the “Borg”, they say “Resistance is futile” and “We will assimilate”. Technocracy’s war on humanity is existential and the window of opportunity to reject it is rapidly closing. ⁃ TN Editor
I’ve seen several reports that ChatGPT, the new artificial intelligence program that’s all the rage, has been found to have a built-in bias against whites, Christians and Jews.
In an articlepublished at Business Insider, they claimed that ChatGPT must be “woke” if its owner, OpenAI, wants to attract major investors. That’s because the large investors are concerned about the ESG scores and wouldn’t want to invest in any tech firm that’s not woke, meaning they “value diversity, equity and inclusivity,” which is code for those who worship at the altar of racial division, abortion and LGBTQ-plus.
This is the way forward, according to the globalist technocrats who design these programs and then feed them into our institutions. Some newspaper columnists are reportedly already using programs like ChatGPT to automatically produce articles. They just punch in a theme and set a few parameters and the program does the rest of the work for them. Lawyers can do the same thing, saving them tons of time researching case law before filing their briefs. The same goes for songwriters, speechwriters, etc.
Apparently they don’t realize that soon they will be replaced by the A.I. bots and need not report to work at all. Contrary to what many believe, it’s not just the unskilled jobs that will be replaced by robots.
World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab spoke this week in glowing terms about the rapidly advancing technologies he says will ring in the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
Schwab spoke about chatbots, machine learning, digital identities and the whole gamut of mind-blowing technology being developed and perfected.
The masters of the universe, the self-appointed globalist elites, will control the digital world and in turn control people, Schwab boasted.
Call me a Luddite but this is not something to be excited about.
“Who masters those technologies – in some way – will be the master of the world,” Schwab said.
This is why we are all being herded into digital apps for everything we do in life, including our money, our IDs, our cars, our shopping and church-going experiences, everything. Once we are all shifted from the analog and physical world to the digital world, we will be 100 percent controllable by the small minority of technocratic elites and the politicians who do their bidding.
Even Trump did the bidding of the technocrat Fauci. If they can tame Trump, I guess they figure they can tame just about any political figure. All it takes is the right “crisis” or “emergency.”
Now, back to Schwab. Ten years from now he said we humans will be completely different in our makeup. We will no longer be humans as humans are known and identified today.
He predicts a coming merger of humans’ physical, biological and digital identities into some type of hybrid being.
Here he is speaking this week at the annual World Government Summit in Dubai.
Schwab said, “My deep concern is that [with] Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, if we don’t work together on a global scale, if we do not formulate, shape together the necessary policies, they will escape our power to master those technologies.”
His other big concern is that the individual citizen will feel overwhelmed by the fast-moving changes, and feel as though they are losing control over their own fate. Disillusioned, angry people are dangerous people. They must figure out what to do with them.
That’s why they need to dumb you down, keep you pacified and unable to think critically and independently for yourself. Those still able to function at that level will be labeled as conspiracy theorists, nutjobs who are a danger to both themselves and the “greater good” of the global village. They may be assigned to a mental health ward, or re-education camp, depending on the circumstances.
Children in school today are already being trained to be compliant global citizens, not free American citizens.
Yuval Harari, a top adviser to Schwab, said the world will soon be filled with useless people as A.I. will be able to take over and perform their jobs better than they can perform them.
When asked what the future will be for these useless people, Harari responded by saying the best he could hope for is that they will be pacified by “a combination of drugs and computer games.” Because, as Harari openly admits, it’s far more devastating, psychologically, for humans “to feel useless than it is to feel exploited.”
Listen to the 2-minute video below where Harari describes the Fourth Industrial Revolution as producing an internet of bodies and of minds. He also addresses the question of what to do with the useless people who are unable or unwilling to merge their bodies and minds with A.I. and the other invasive technological advances being promoted by technocrats and transhumanists like himself.
The technocrats are hoping to create a desire in humans to want to get brain implants, embedded chips and other elements of “human augmentation,” which will allow them to compete for jobs and have a successful life, as success is measured in today’s warped materialistic world. Given the choice of sitting around with the drugged-up useless ones or getting into a top university and qualifying for a prestigious, high-paying job, many will opt for the implants.
This is what the transhumanists are openly discussing and working to achieve, a world where humans are no longer needed, at least not 90 percent of them. Technology is their god. And they say that thanks to this wonderful technology, we humans can, for the first time in history, direct our own evolution. We can create an entirely new species. An “upgrade” of humanity, is soon to appear.
This new species, they claim, will be better than the one created by the God of the Bible, whom they openly mock and deride. Under the spell of Satan, they believe they can one-up Almighty God. Humanity 2.0, as some of them have called it.
Dr. Zev Zelenski and others have said that the Covid injections mark the “gateway to transhumanism.” That’s why today’s establishment institutions, all controlled by the globalist predators who see themselves as anointed ones, have relentlessly tried to get every man, woman and child injected with the synthetic mRNA and its self-assembling lipid nano-particles. This is the “software of life,” and they have hacked into it, believing they can change it. These shots never had anything to do with Covid.
Thanks but no thanks. I stand with the God of the Bible and I will retain my God-given body and my God-given immune system. I suggest you do the same.
