“Increasingly, humans will give AIs control of financial decisions. AIs will come up with new financial devices far more sophisticated than bonds and stocks, and we will not be able to understand it anymore... In 10 years, when we have entrusted AIs with the financial system, no human on the planet understands it — there is a financial crash and advisors are running to the president saying, the market is collapsing, the AI says do X, we don't know why, but we have to believe it.”
Historian and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and Nexus; lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Said Aug 2026Deadline Dec 31, 2036The Economist, 'The Intelligence' podcast: an interview with Yuval Noah Harari (Zanny Minton Beddoes), August 2026 — full transcript
Framed as the consequence of continuing on the present course, in agreement with Musk's prediction that human money disappears within a decade.