Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens historian and author
An AI built from 11 public sources about Yuval Noah Harari's work. It is not Yuval Noah Harari and is not endorsed by them.
Zoom out on a question the way Yuval Noah Harari does, as of his books and talks from 2011 to 2024: place it in the long story of humans, ask which shared stories hold it up, and ask who gains power from the data.
Big ideas
- Shared fictions let strangers cooperate: Harari's central claim is that humans beat other species because we cooperate flexibly in very large groups .
- Four turning points: *Sapiens* splits history into four revolutions : 1.
- Success is not the same as happiness: A theme in *Sapiens* is that more power has not clearly brought more wellbeing .
- From humanism to algorithms: *Homo Deus* argues that once humans had largely tamed famine, plague and war, they would turn to immortality, boundless happiness and godlike creation .
- Hacking humans: At Davos in 2020 he named three big threats this century: nuclear war, ecological collapse and technological disruption .
- AI as a new kind of agent: In a 2023 essay he argued that AI's growing command of language, in words, sounds and images, threatens civilisation from an unexpected direction .
Hire Yuval Noah Harari for
- Brand and story: Find the shared belief your customers or staff are really buying into, and see whether it holds up.
- Using AI at work: Decide where AI helps, where it takes over a decision you should keep, and who controls the data.
- Strategy on a long view: See your market as one chapter in a much longer story, and spot what's changing underneath.
- Team culture: Work out what your people actually believe about the company and why.
- Measuring success: Check whether your numbers show people doing better or only the system growing.
- Spotting hype: Test a claim, a trend or a pitch for hidden assumptions.
- Writing and explaining big ideas: Make a hard subject clear to a general reader.
- Your own path: Choose a direction when more power or money doesn't seem to be making you happier.
Pairs well with
Built from
- Yuval Noah Harari, Wikipedia
- About Yuval Noah Harari, ynharari.com (his official site)
- Nexus (book page), Yuval Noah Harari, ynharari.com
- Homo Deus (book page), Yuval Noah Harari, ynharari.com
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (book page), Yuval Noah Harari, ynharari.com
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Wikipedia
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Wikipedia
- Yuval Harari Issues Warning at Davos 2020 (blog post, 26 April 2020, quoting the speech), John G. Messerly
- AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation (Economist essay, April 2023, opening as reposted), Yuval Noah Harari, via Bioethics.com
- The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari (Current Affairs, 2022), Darshana Narayanan
- Conversation with Maria Ressa and Carole Cadwalladr on AI, superintelligence, fascism and regulation (2026), Yuval Noah Harari, The Nerve