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2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 11, 2026 by Yuval Noah Harari · across every show →
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Feb 11, 2026 bearish
Harari: AI-to-AI trade using compute tokens could render fiat currencies irrelevant
“We could reach a point when, for instance, currency will be AI tokens, or even time on servers, or data. That AIs will trade with other AIs for tokens or for data, not for dollars. And the human currencies, like dollars and euros and yens, they will become irr…”
Feb 24, 2026 bullish
Amodei: AI performance gains come almost purely from scaling compute and data
“If you scale up models, you give them more data, more compute. Again, there are a few modifications like RL, but not really very much. It's pretty close to pure scaling. You find that, you know, when you do that, you find, you know, incredible increases in per…”