AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ financial crisis, says Yuval Noah Harari

Historian and Sapiens author says sophistication of technology makes it difficult to forecast its dangers Artificial intelligence could cause a financial crisis with “catastrophic” consequences, according to the historian and author Yuval Noah Harari, who says the technology’s sophistication makes forecasting its dangers difficult.Harari told the Guardian a concern about safety testing AI models was foreseeing all the problems that a powerful system could cause. Unlike with nuc