Yuval Noah Harari

Biography

Best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari has forensic knowledge of human evolution coupled with an extraordinary insight of how future tech will shape all our lives – with a sharp focus on Artificial Intelligence.

With few hotter topics than AI and how the life-changing technology will fundamentally alter so many aspects of the way the world operates, Yuval’s expert knowledge is both timely and second-to-none.

The historian and science writer is a powerful and engaging speaker on an issue no one can afford to ignore – and one who asks the pressing question of whether computer algorithms are learning our secrets which could eventually be turned against us.

Put simply, Yuval says urgent choices must be made now to survive and thrive alongside developing technology.

His gripping written account of how information networks have shaped our world climbed to the top of the Sunday Times bestsellers. In total, Yuval has published more than a dozen books and many more academic articles.

Broadcaster Stephen Fry said his book, ‘Nexus’, was “tremendous, thought-provoking and so very well reasoned . . . If there is one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus”.

Yuval is an experienced and accomplished public speaker and also serves as a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He even taught himself to read aged just three and his academic excellence propelled him all the way to Oxford where he completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

Always in demand as a public speaker on tech and human evolution, Yuval has twice spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos.