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World Service,1 min

How AI could prompt the rise of the 'useless class'

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Bestselling historian Yuval Noah Harari predicts that the AI revolution will create a new class of humans with no economic or military utility – a vast “useless class”. (Photo: A crowd of people on a platform Credit: Doug Chayka)

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