People by WTF Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF
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Feb 13, 2026 
Yuval Noah Harari, historian and bestselling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, joins from Davos. He unpacks religion as a powerful shared fiction. He explores AI becoming a new religious authority and how algorithms ruined public conversation. He warns about geopolitics reverting to force and the fragility of trust between nations.
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Fictions Drive Human Cooperation
- History is shaped more by shared fictions than objective facts, and cooperation relies on storytelling.
- Harari argues money, corporations and religions are powerful invented stories that run the world.
Why Some Religions Persuade
- Christianity succeeded partly because it offers the attractive story of an omniscient God who loves you.
- Harari warns attractive ideas often have meager evidence and high susceptibility to confirmation bias.
Power-Only Politics Is Shortsighted
- Geopolitics is reverting to a view that power and force are the only realities.
- Harari cautions this cynical stance undermines friendship, trust and long-term cooperation between nations.
