Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

He is married to Itzik Yahav, a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and the co-founder and president of Sapienship – a social impact company that advocates for global responsibility through initiatives in the fields of entertainment and education.

Prior to founding Sapienship with his husband, Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, Yahav acted as Harari's agent and business partner, publishing the bestselling books: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow; and ‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’ – that sold over 30 million copies in 60 languages. In 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Yahav and Harari donated 1 million USD to the World Health Organization's solidarity fund. Yahav has a background in art and production, and holds a Bachelor's degree in graphic design.

Yuval is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). His writings examine free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness and suffering.

He writes about the "cognitive revolution" occurring roughly 70,000 years ago when Homo sapiens supplanted the rival Neanderthals and other species of the genus Homo, developed language skills and structured societies, and ascended as apex predators, aided by the agricultural revolution and accelerated by the scientific revolution, which have allowed humans to approach near mastery over their environment. His books also examine the possible consequences of a futuristic biotechnological world in which intelligent biological organisms are surpassed by their own creations; he has said, "Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so".

This is speculative nonsense.

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The quotes below, are transcribed from the video: Yuval Noah Harari on The Future of Humanity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umnMHQPYEmA

"We are probably one of the last generation of homo sapiens. Within a century or two, earth will be dominated by entities that are more different from us than we are different from Neanderthals or chimpanzees. Because in the coming generation we will learn how to engineer bodies and brains and minds."

"Now how exactly will the future masters of the planet look like? This will be decided by the people who own the data. Those who control the data control the future not just of humanity, but the future of life itself. Because today, data is the most important asset in the world.

In ancient times, land was the most important asset, and if too much land became concentrated in too few hands, humanity split into aristocrats and commoners. Then in the modern age, in the last two centuries, machinery replaced land as the most important asset. But if too many of the machines became concentrated in too few hands, humanity split into classes; into capitalists and proletariat.

Now, data is replacing machinery as the most important asset and  if too much of the data becomes concentrated in too few hands, humanity will split, but not into classes. It will split into different species."

The proposition is that as technology advances faster than our understanding of it, it will allow us to upgrade our brains and nervous system. By connecting our brains directly to the internet, hackers will have direct access int our minds. Our information can be stolen from us and modify our beliefs and opinions.

We have reached the point where we can hack not just computers, we can hack human beings and other organisms."

"What do you need in order to hack a human being? You need two things. You need a lot of computing power and you need a lot of data; especially biometric data. Not data about what I buy or where I go, but data about what is happening inside my body and inside my brain.

Until today, nobody had the necessary computing power and the necessary data to hack humanity. But this is now changing because of two simultaneous revolutions. On the one hand, advances on computer science; and especially the rise of machine learning and A.I., are giving us the necessary computing power. And at the same time, advances in biology and especially in brain science are giving us the necessary biological understanding."

In the video, Yuval suggests the possibility that humans are algorithms, and as such, homo sapiens may not be dominant in a universe where robots and A.I. will most likely replace us at our jobs, once they become intelligent enough.

"You can really summarize a hundred and fifty years of biological research since Charles Darwin, in three words: organisms are algorithms. This is the big insight of the modern life science is that organisms, whether viruses, or bananas or humans, they are really just biochemical algorithms and we are learning how to decipher these algorithms."

Yuval never entertains the concept of a Soul. Anything that is outside of his fundamentalist paradigm doesn't exist. His 'big insight' is that humans are just 'biochemical algorithms'.

Now when the two revolutions merge, when the 'infotech' revolution merges with the biotech revolution, what you get is the ability to hack human beings. And maybe the most important invention for the merger of 'infotech' and biotech is the biometric sensor (chip implant) that translates biochemical processes in the body and the brain into electronic signals that a computer can store and analyze. And once you have enough such biometric information and enough computing power, you can create algorithms that know me better than I know myself. And humans really don't know themselves very well. This is why algorithms have a real chance of getting to know ourselves better. 

The algorithm tracks your eye movement, your blood pressure, your brain activity and tells you who you are. Once we have algorithms that understand me better than I understand myself, they could predict my desires, manipulate my emotions; and even take decisions on my behalf."

 The idea of a 'chip implant' is ludicrous as the brain is not wired up like a digital computer. 

In the 2015 film Chappie, consciousness can be downloaded to, stored on and uploaded from, a flash drive; but the biological brain doesn't use binary data.

We don't live in a digital world; we live in an analogue world. 

The idea that you have decisions made for you means that you have given up autonomy and have no free will. You are a slave.

"The whole idea that humans have this soul, spirit and they have free will and nobody knows what's happening inside me. So, whatever I choose, whether in the election or in the supermarket; this is my free will…..that's over."

Yuval isn't the only one to dislike free will. Sam Harris is an American philosopher, author, and podcast host. His work covers a wide range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence.  He is a supporter of transhumanism and has proposed that free will is an illusion.

If free will really is an illusion, then so is freedom; and so is imprisonment.

Just because two algorithms produce the same output, it doesn't mean that they are constructed in the same way.

A chess playing computer may be able to win games more effectively than a human chess player; but it never reflects on the origins of the game or the historical developmental design of the chess pieces.

If computer software (programs) could arise by natural selection, there would be no need to invent new ones. Clearly this is not the case.