Yuval Noah Harari: I didn’t recognise an AI deepfake of myself | The Economist @TheEconomist
Yuval Noah Harari: I didn’t recognise an AI deepfake of myself | The Economist @TheEconomist
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Yuval Noah Harari says AI has become so good that he didn’t recognise a deepfake of himself for a minute and a half. Speaking to The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, the author and historian warns that this technology is coming for all of us.

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