Book Reviewed: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

The artificial Intelligence (AI) and humanity The author explores the use of information in the past and its future potential as artificial intelligence could shape humanity. He sounds more like a soothsayer than an author of a book warning readers of their impending doom. There is not a great deal one can learn from this book than already said by physicists like Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur Elon Musk. Stephen Hawking's views on information highlighted its centrality to our understanding of the universe, especially in resolving mysteries of spacetime, information, and physical reality. The transformative potential of AI can be both positive and negative. Negative, if precautions are not used to keep human control of AI. If not, especially, when AI itself starts writing its own programs without the participation of a human programmer, it could be dangerous for our own existence. Elon Musk shares this view and continues to believe that AI is a transformative force that benefits humanity through initiatives like Neuralink and exploration of Mars for future survival of humanity. This book is not inspiring and doesn’t illuminate the readers