I’m finally reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and looking forward to moving right into Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI afterward.

Harari covers the hard-to-see quotidian delegation of decision-making to AI in Nexus’ 2nd half. Decision provenance and explainability are even harder to discern when multiple AI systems and agents interact.

We bolster governance for sensitive and high-risk AI use cases and also need to monitor uses deemed “low-risk”—particularly as more and more AIs interweave into our daily lives and outcomes.

After Nexus, I’ll have to have a look into Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

For those who have read Harari’s books, what is an insight learned or pondered over from these texts? Please share in the comments below.