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There are great ideas in artificial intelligence and how we can apply it for the coming decades in our daily lives. There are possibilities in cognitive analytics, parallel information-processing, we have deep learning and face-reading machines, but let's remember that many things are not only used for smarter homes, cars and infrastructure, but also as weapons.
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I would like to open a very special book in this context from Yuval Harari, the book has the title 'Homo Deus (man as a god): A Brief History of Tomorrow' is the subtitle. We read: "If scientific discoveries and technological developments split humankind into a mass of useless humans and a small elite of upgraded superhumans, or if authority shifts altogether away from human beings into the hands of highly intelligent algorithms, then liberalism will collapse. What new religions or ideologies might fill the resulting vacuum and guide the subsequent evolution of our godlike descendants?". The next quotation is: "Techno-humanism agrees that Homo sapiens as we know it has run its historical course and will no longer be relevant in the future, but concludes that we should therefore use technology in order to create Homo Deus- a much superior human model".

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