Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?
A special edition with Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus.
Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, explores the long history of inequality 鈥� from the Stone Age onwards 鈥� and asks whether we are on the brink of creating a huge 鈥渆conomically useless鈥� underclass, unable to keep up with enhanced humans, the owners of increasingly valuable data and, eventually, artificial intelligence.
Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Estelle Doyle Editor: Richard Knight
(Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, Credit: Daniel Thomas Smith)
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How AI could prompt the rise of the 'useless class'
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'The rich will be more talented than everybody else'
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