Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian and bestselling author of Sapiens, argues that artificial intelligence will create a “useless class”:
masses of people the economy simply no longer needs.
And when he’s asked what will become of them, his answer, which he gave in 2015 and repeated in 2017, is:
“My best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games.”
In 2018 and again in 2024, he added that AI will not only replace the human intellect and outperform human beings, but will also replace our relationships.
Why?
Because it will understand our emotional needs so well that we will become intolerant of most human relationships.
Harari presents all this as a forecast, not a plan of action, but the coldness and detachment with which he speaks of “useless” human beings is chilling.
The future he describes can be summed up in two sentences:
The machine will take your job and leave you in front of a screen, on drugs.
Then it will take the place of the people you love, too, because it is simply better at understanding you than they are.
In short: first you’ll be superfluous. Then you won’t even need each other.
Anyone who reads this “vision” is bound to be outraged. But the question I want to raise here is a different one:
Where is Divine Justice in all of this?
Or, to put it another way: Is it possible that the forces of Darkness are running the world, and God simply lets them?
On the face of it, the world does seem to be run by the Darkness rather than the Light, and that sense leads many people to despair and loss of faith.
But this conclusion is wrong, because it rests on a false assumption about Divine Justice.
First, people imagine God as a superhuman figure with a white beard who personally answers their requests. So, if we asked so nicely and not only didn’t get what we wanted but were dealt blow after blow, the conclusion must be that God does not exist.
In truth, however, Divine Justice is expressed with complete precision in the Laws of Creation, which embody God’s Will.
The Law of Cause and Effect, better known as the Law of Karma, is one example. It operates on its own, returning to every person what he has sown in his thoughts, words, and deeds, even if this happens only in another lifetime.
Second, we perceive God’s Love as intended only for our earthly, material well-being:
health, money, love, and family.
There is nothing wrong with any of these. But God’s Love is directed toward something higher:
toward the spirit, toward the development of our true self, which reaches far beyond this earthly life.
That is why, sometimes, it is precisely an illness, a financial crisis, or a painful breakup that opens the door to spiritual awakening, and even within suffering, we can find an expression of Divine Love for the human spirit.
Now let’s take this one step further:
According to the Laws of Creation, even the plans of the Darkness will ultimately serve the great Plan of the Light in the End of Days, because there is no power greater than the Power of God!
What is the Plan of the Light?
To bring about the closing of the karmic cycles of all the world’s inhabitants, who “took a bite of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge” and, in doing so, let the intellect, and later the emotions, silence the voice of the spirit, and cut themselves off from God and from eternity.
And how will the plan of the Darkness, the one Harari describes, serve the Plan of the Light?
It’s simple, and at the same time brilliant!
The plan of the Darkness is, in effect, saying:
Your intellect is worthless, because no human mind will ever compete with artificial intelligence.
Your emotions are worthless too, because no human being will ever hold your unstable emotions with endless patience, the way artificial intelligence does.
Which brings us to the interesting question:
If so, what sets the human being apart from artificial intelligence?
The spirit!
The spirit is not a product of the brain, where both the intellectual consciousness and the emotional consciousness reside. It is the eternal core of the human being, and its origin lies outside the material world.
That is why artificial intelligence will never be able to replace it. Like every machine, even the most sophisticated, it can never go beyond the limits of understanding of the material world.
This is why the revolution of the spiritual consciousness is the most important revolution of the new era:
It restores to the human being the crown of his true humanity and frees him, for all eternity, from the curse of the serpent!
