Messages that the famous Israeli historian, philosopher and author of several bestsellers in the non-Fixhen genre proposed changing the text of the Bible and subsequently create a new religion, became popular in Runet in June 2023. We checked whether Juval Harari spoke with such an initiative.

Different versions The plot of the sentence “Re -rewritten the Bible using artificial intelligence”, “Create a new inclusive religion” and even “reflash morality»Appeared in the Russian -language segment of the network no later than June 12, 2023 and spread to this day. In particular, the TV presenter wrote about the proposal of Harari about the proposal Ruslan Ostashko (148,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and blogger Dmitry Puchkov (220,000), publicist Nikolai Starikov published fast With the wording “Satanists completely stopped being shy” (246,000), and TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov drew attention to the initiative three times, making reposts from the channels Starikova (June 14, 215,000) and blogger Roman Golovanov (June 19 And July 3, 192 000 and 383,000). Users and users shared such publicationsVKontakte" Livejournal And "Classmates", and also row Prochremplevsky MediaAt the same time, in some publications, Harari is named either an adviser or senior director of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Yuval Harari, indeed, writes a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) and religions, some of his public lectures are also devoted to these topics. In particular, with reasoning about the use of AI, he made on April 29, 2023 within the framework Frontiers Forum In the Swiss Montreo. Video of the lecture "AI and the future of mankind" Layd On the YouTube channel Harari May 14, Russian translation Available On the Channel "Test Turing". However, the writer's statements during this lecture are directly opposite to the meaning that Russian media and bloggers attributed him to him.

Harari claims that the most important aspect of the current phase of the development of AI is that he masters the language at a level above average human abilities. This, in turn, means “hacking of the operating system of human civilization”, because it is with the help of the language that we construct reality, including gods and religion. The writer proposes to present a world in which most of the stories, images, music, laws are formed by inhuman intelligence, which knows how to effectively use the weaknesses, prejudices and addictions of the human mind, and asks the question: what will happen if the AI write a certain number of texts that people will perceive as a religious revelation?

“Just mastering the human language, AI has everything you need to plunge us into the world of illusions like a“ matrix ”. <...> There is no need to implant chips into the brain of people to control or manipulate them. <...> If we are not careful, the curtain of illusions will fall over all humanity ” - this is how Harari warns the audience about the possible dangers of uncontrolled use of new developments in the field of AI, calling it“ weapons of mass defeat, which can destroy our mental and social world ”. Recognizing the usefulness of AI in the potential solution of many issues, the writer calls to carefully regulate everything related to the use of such developments. In conclusion, Harari proposes to introduce a kind of analogue The first law of robotics: AI must inform every time in a conversation that he is AI, not a person.

Exactly with the same theses, but a little less emotionally philosopher He performed In Lisbon on May 19, as part of a public conversation with journalist Pedro Pinto. But in Switzerland and in Portugal, the convinced atheist Harari spoke mainly about the dangers of AI (including the example of a possible creation of Religion AI) and did not at all declare the rewriting of the Bible or the creation of a certain inclusive religion. Literally, discussing the dangers associated with AI, he said the following: “You know, Gutenberg printed the Bible in the middle of the 15th century. The printing press printed as many copies of the Bible as Gutenberg ordered, but he did not create a single new page. He did not have his own ideas about the Bible: is it good? Is it bad? How to interpret this? How to interpret then? Artificial intelligence can create new ideas, can even write a new Bible. ” Then Harari almost word in word repeated the fears expressed in Switzerland.

The posts about the April and May thesis of the writer began to appear in the Russian -language segment of Telegram at the end of May. The authors of these texts quite neutrally reported the hypothesis of Harari regarding religion and AI and even brought Reliable quotes from the performance. But these publications did not receive a viral effect.

The most likely source of the analysis in Russian was the publication in the Telegram channel of the Chairman of the Commission of the Council of the Russian Federation on Information Policy and Media Interaction Alexei Pushkov. June 12 at 00:07 Moscow time Pushkov wrote (spelling is preserved): “The ideologist of transgumanism and globalism Noah Yuval Hariri, speaking the other day in Lisbon, Hariri said that artificial intelligence would rewrite the Bible and create a new“ inclusive religion ”, which will be“ correct ”in content. These formulations formed the basis of the subsequent viral distribution of the plot in Russian.

However, the first publications about the allegedly nominated Harari initiative appeared in English two days earlier. The story of rewriting the Bible and creating an inclusive religion in a slightly different formulation was published On the Slay News website June 10. This created In 2021, the ultra -conservative resource, where only two authors write, and the main content was directed against the Democratic Party of the United States and Joe Biden. Declaring In the section “About us” about compliance with the principles of facts, in fact, the site systematically spreads disinformation and Conspiracy theories, for example, about Covid-19 - whole chapter The site is dedicated to anti -Vaccine propaganda.

The article on Slay News published a record of the Lisbon conversation of Harari with Pedro Pinto and quote the above quote about Gutenberg and printed machine, but its meaning in the text is distorted to the opposite. It was in this publication, among other things, it was argued that Harari is adviser to Claus Schwaba, president of the World Economic Forum (VEF), but it was also does not correspond reality. WEF is one of the main goals of attacks on the part of not only American, but also Russian conspiracy therapists, while usually their allegations are false.

Thus, the story of Harari's proposal to rewrite the Bible is completely invented. She first appeared on a non -authoritative English -language site, and in Russian spread after the post of Senator Pushkov. And although many bloggers Used When the misinformation message is distributed, real quotes from Harari's speeches in Switzerland and Portugal or fragments of the relevant videos, the writer neither in these speeches, nor have not yet put forward the idea attributed to him.

Photo on the cover: Hard from Harari's performance to Montreo