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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AI As The New Religious Interpreter
- AI will increasingly assume religious authority by reading and reinterpreting sacred texts at scale.
- Harari predicts AIs could become new religious authorities and create AI-originated sects.
From Attention To AI Intimacy
- The competition for human attention is shifting toward intimacy, where AIs build personal bonds.
- Harari warns children growing up attached to AIs may change future social and romantic capacities.
Algorithms Rewrote Public Discourse
- We handed public conversation management to algorithms optimized for engagement, not truth.
- Harari argues this incentivized anger and hate because these emotions maximize user attention.
