{"id":233885,"date":"2026-03-23T11:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/yuval-noah-harari-why-advanced-societies-fall-for-mass-delusion"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:03:26","slug":"yuval-noah-harari-why-advanced-societies-fall-for-mass-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/yuval-noah-harari-why-advanced-societies-fall-for-mass-delusion","title":{"rendered":"Yuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4l1fr-t3ZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_<\/a>\u2026 Become a Big Think member to unlock Yuval\u2019s full class, AI and the Future of Civilization: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/my-classes\/ai-an\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/my-classes\/ai-an<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Up next, Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information \u25ba \u2022 Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your m\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is in our information. Humans, yes, we are generally good and wise, but if you give good people bad information, they make bad decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human history is a paradox: we accumulate knowledge at astonishing speed, while remaining vulnerable to deception, superstition, and the stories that steer entire civilizations.<\/p>\n<p>From the first clay tablets to today\u2019s global media systems, the structures that carry our ideas have always shaped what societies can build, believe, and destroy. That paradox is even more important in the age of AI, says Yuval Noah Harari.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 If humans are so smart, why are we on the verge of destruction?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/yuval-noah-harari-why-advanced-societies-fall-for-mass-delusion\">Continue reading \u201cYuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\u2026 Become a Big Think member to unlock Yuval\u2019s full class, AI and the Future of Civilization: https:\/\/bigthink.com\/my-classes\/ai-an\u2026 Up next, Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information \u25ba \u2022 Yuval Noah Harari: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}