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October 23, 2026

Harari likens people of the future to cows unable to understand the financial system

The hosts discussed a video excerpt in which Yuval Noah Harari draws an analogy: cows do not understand the financial system that affects their lives, and people 10 or 20 years from now may not understand the AI financial system that affects theirs. He concludes that humans could become “the cows of the future.” One host called Harari’s point about superintelligence interesting, but the discussion did not present the prediction as established fact.

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