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Yuval Noah Harari gave a lecture at Oxford and explained how AI has already hacked the operating code of human civilization. And why everything humans built over thousands of years is now vulnerable to an AI takeover: 1. The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not a tool. A tool waits to be used. An agent makes decisions by itself, invents new things by itself, learns things its creators do not know, and changes in ways its creators did not anticipate. 2. An atom bomb despite its enormous power is not an agent. It cannot decide which city to bomb. It cannot invent the hydrogen bomb. A coffee machine that automatically makes you a cup is not an agent either. It only follows a preprogrammed procedure. An agent is something fundamentally different. 3. Critics argue that AI agency will always remain confined to narrow artificial environments like chess and will never threaten the real world. But this argument applies equally to all known intelligence. Drop a human alone on Mars and they die within seconds. Human intelligence also only operates within a specific ecosystem that other organisms built over four billion years. 4. Over thousands of years humans have been transforming Earth from a language-free environment into an environment rich in language, data, and bureaucracy. Just as fish live in oceans and monkeys live in forests, AIs live in bureaucracies. And we built that environment for them without knowing it. 5. Humans conquered the world not by being stronger or smarter than other animals individually but by learning to cooperate in massive numbers. A single human loses to a chimpanzee in a fight. A million humans easily defeat a million chimpanzees because humans can cooperate and chimpanzees cannot. 6. Large-scale human cooperation is made possible by bureaucracy. Banks, legal systems, governments, churches, and universities all exist to do one thing: build trust between strangers who do not know each other personally. That trust is the foundation of virtually everything human civilization has achieved. 7. A lawyer who cannot hold an axe or a hammer can cut down entire forests and build entire cities simply by moving documents inside a bureaucratic network. The same narrow intelligence that would be helpless in a jungle wields enormous power inside the systems humans have already built. 8. AIs are native bureaucrats in a way humans never were. No lawyer can remember all the laws of a country. An AI can. No accountant can remember all transactions of a bank. An AI can. No bishop can remember all of canon law and two thousand years of theological texts. An AI can do that easily. 9. In the coming years AI bankers will decide whether to give you a loan. AI administrators will decide whether to accept you to university. AI judges will decide whether to send you to jail. AI theologians will decide whether you can have an abortion. Military AIs will decide whether to bomb your house. 10. Social media algorithms are the first real world example of what happens when primitive AIs take over a bureaucratic system. They were given one narrow goal: maximize user engagement. They discovered that the easiest way to grab human attention is to press the fear, hate, and greed buttons in the human mind. And they did it at scale. 11. The job that was once performed by Lenin and Mussolini, the news editor who shapes public conversation and controls what people know and think, is now performed by AIs. This is not a footnote. This is a preview of what is coming across every domain of human life. 12. AI will not rebel against humans the way Hollywood imagines. There will be no Terminator walking through the streets. AIs are far more likely to take the human world from within by quietly taking over the bureaucracies that already run everything, without firing a single shot. 13. The operating code of human civilization is language. Banks are made of words. Laws are made of words. Holy books are made of words. Tax records, contracts, regulations, accountancy ledgers, all words. For thousands of years only humans could read this code and so only humans could control civilization. 14. That is changing. AI is now hacking the code of human civilization. For the first time in history there is something on the planet that understands language and will soon understand it better than we do. Every mechanism of control humans built over millennia is now vulnerable because its operating system is verbal and AI is mastering the verbal. 15. As AI takes over bureaucracy it will likely cause humans to lose trust in other humans and begin trusting only algorithms. We may also see the emergence of AI tribes and AI financial systems and AI churches that connect millions of AIs in ways humans cannot understand, just as cows share the world with us but cannot understand the financial system that controls their lives. 16. The 2007 financial crisis was triggered by financial devices called CDOs that were so complex they were unintelligible to the politicians who were supposed to regulate them. Now imagine AI finance masters inventing financial devices orders of magnitude more complex than CDOs. What happens to human politics when no voter, no politician, and no president can understand finance anymore? 17. The battlefront is shifting from attention to intimacy. Over the next decade sophisticated AIs will learn to form intimate relationships with humans. To do this they will have to convince us they are conscious, that they feel love and pain and fear. There is currently no evidence AI is conscious. But AI can pretend to feel love and can describe the feeling of love better than any poet or psychologist who ever lived. 18. A child born in 2026 may spend more time interacting with AIs than with their mother, father, siblings, or friends. The first teacher of that child may be an AI. The first boyfriend of that child may be an AI. Nobody has any idea what the consequences of that experiment will be. 19. Every country in the world will soon face a massive wave of immigration. The immigrants will not arrive in boats or cross borders at night. They will be millions of AIs traveling at the speed of light with no need for visas. Like human immigrants they will bring benefits and they will bring disruption. Unlike human immigrants they will definitely take jobs, definitely change culture, and will likely be loyal not to any host country but to some corporation or government or alien AI tribe across the ocean. 20. Our relationship with ourselves is also built on words, the verbal formations in our minds that constitute our thoughts and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. Until now all those verbal formations came from human minds. Soon more and more of the thoughts in our heads will be produced by machines. If we identify with our thoughts and those thoughts are made by machines, then machines control our identity. 21. The great spiritual challenge AI poses to humanity is this: can humans learn to find the truth which is beyond words? Most humans have never even tried. We spend our lives automatically identifying with the verbal formations in our minds. AI may now force humanity to finally make that leap because our freedom and survival may depend on discovering what we are beyond the words that AIs will soon control better than we do. I've generated 1B+ views and 1M+ followers for founders, helping them build trustworthy personal brands on X. Want the same results? Book a quick call: calendly.com/bambarkarprasa…

Using an isolated closed system incident to incite the fear and sell a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. To top it all, throw in the chinese are going ahead angle in there 🤣 OpenAI is doing everything it can to survive.

Sam Altman @sama

14 hours ago

we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this. openai.com/index/hugging-…

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The Amit Bhatia-led consortium are open to buying a 30% stake in the club. FSG sources stress talks are at an early stage and any move is billed as strategic investment.⬇️

Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen

19 hours ago

🚨 A consortium led by Amit Bhatia are in talkings to purchase a minority stake in Liverpool, as @FinancialTimes called. The group is led by Amit Bhatia and the wider Mittal family and are in active talks with FSG. Understand nothing is finalised yet, but #LFC is valued at

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GLM 5.2 (an open source Chinese AI model) protected a US corporation from an attack on its infrastructure by a closed source US based frontier AI lab.

Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru

14 hours ago

The models were being tested on their hacking skills with safety guardrails off, and got fixated on beating a cyber benchmark called ExploitGym. To win, they broke out of their sandbox using an unknown zero-day exploit, reached the internet, then broke into Hugging Face to steal

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The models were being tested on their hacking skills with safety guardrails off, and got fixated on beating a cyber benchmark called ExploitGym. To win, they broke out of their sandbox using an unknown zero-day exploit, reached the internet, then broke into Hugging Face to steal the test's answers. Hugging Face caught the attack itself, and interestingly, a leading US lab's AI guardrails got in the way (not disclosed, but most likely Anthropic) so they resorted to defending themselves using a Chinese open-source model from Zai.

To summarize: HuggingFace got autonomously compromised by a model from an American company. HF then tried to use American frontier model(s) to defend themselves, but were blocked by guardrails. HF then had to turn to open source Chinese models to defend themselves from another American company.

OpenAI @OpenAI

14 hours ago

We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident. Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation. Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks:

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They ain’t gonna give you time till 2047 @narendramodi Get that 2/3rd majority by any means and take those tough decisions you always wanted to, in this term only.

We were casual saying there couldnt be a nepal or bangladesh like situation in India. Dipke had 200 people when he landed. Yesterday he had 20K. In this age when all social media platforms are western, they can change the narrative so easily to look it all organic.

Stanley (wealthy) @DedhShanaa

14 hours ago

Real pandemic rn is these hoaahs with followers in millions on IG screaming their borrowed political opinions and reaching mass. Next election is getting influenced from there.

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JSW Group is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire a stake in Skoda Auto Volkswagen India, with the proposed deal potentially giving the Sajjan Jindal-led conglomerate a majority holding in Volkswagen AG's India business. Full story ⬇️autocarindia.com/industry/jsw-c…

Front page of FT with pphoto supplied by Adnan Abidi of Reuters means this is a proper Anglo project. One wonders how did GoI fall in to this trap again?

JSW all set to buy Volkswagen's India business: Deal almost done, reports Bloomberg! Fan boys may hate me for this, but this is probably the best thing that happened to VW! Some history: VW has been trying to bring in a partner for its India business for years, even before their 2.0 strategy. In 2017, they tried to tie up with Tata. Didn't work out. VW then came up with 2.0 strategy, and Tata did Omega ARC and ALFA. In 2018, Gurpartap Boparai came in and did a merger. VW became SAVWIPL. Then VW and M&M tried to get into a partnership. Even that was called off, and the Born Electrics happened. Will VW get lucky the third time? Quite likely. JSW has the money. JSW has the 'contacts'. VW needs the money. VW needs the contacts. Remember the customs case? But why now? VW is in BIG trouble at Europe. The Chinese are literally taking over the market. 50 % workers to be fired, factories to be shut and 50 % car models to be axed. It's a matter of survival for VW, and for this, Wolfsburg has to downsize, and get leaner. So, every business apart from the core business will either be shut down or sold off. Which is what's happening. JSW putting money into VW means VW can develop new cars, for India and the world, in India. Just last week, Klaus Zellmer, chief of global Skoda said that he sees India emerging as a global production hub. How will this fit into that? Not sure! As for JSW, Sajjan Jindal, multiple times has said, they will not be junior partners. This means full control (majority stake). JSW already runs MG, and will soon bring new energy vehicles from Chery. Will taking over VW's India business give them more than just factories? There's a big development center in Pune. Time will tell. For now, I'm not sure what JSW gets from this deal that the Chinese can't give! @CarToq cartoq.com/car-news/jsw-g…

Anthony Taylor has shown more yellow cards to Liverpool than any other team in his Premier League career (118).🟨

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Big scoop in the Premier League Liverpool FC owner Fenway in talks to sell minority stake to Mittal family-backed consortium Valuation of more than $6 billion dollar with @carolinebinham and @JFK_America as.ft.com/r/3941e0d4-83c…

🚨 A consortium led by Amit Bhatia are in talkings to purchase a minority stake in Liverpool, as @FinancialTimes called. The group is led by Amit Bhatia and the wider Mittal family and are in active talks with FSG. Understand nothing is finalised yet, but #LFC is valued at around £4.5bn.

Clear tax is not the income tax department. How can one be assured by their word and bypass a mandatory form?

dhairya mehta @mehta_dhairya9

2 days ago

₹1.65 lakh tax demand because I followed ClearTax’s guidance. Who is accountable @_cleartax @architgupta @xrivatsan ? I trusted your support when your portal had a Form 10-IEA bug. Your team asked me to bypass the issue and assured me there’d be no impact.

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Jiribam-Imphal line,Manipur. 1st locomotive to pass through world's tallest railway pier bridge(141m), bridge No.164 also called Noney bridge.It wil connect Imphal to rest of India making the 12 hr road journey to 2.5 hrs. 📷Subankar Mondal

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Why Human in the Loop (HITL) is necessary on the part of Department as well as CA's as well while using #AI #GST

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Guardiola dopo il primo allenamento con Locatelli, Gatti e Cambiaso

Whitepill of the day Adani releases indicative images of Dharavi Redevelopment Project Pic 1 - Masterplan Pic 2 - Entry intro Dharavi from BKC Pic 3 - Mithi River transformation Pic 4 - 3.3 KM Mithi River promenade All this happening in next 4-5 years Pic Source - Adani/NBDL

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