DIREITOS HUMANOS NA ERA DA INTELIGÊNCIA ARTIFICIAL: O ADMIRÁVEL MUNDO NOVO DE YUVAL NOAH HARARI E O FUTURO DO HOMO SAPIENS

Abstract

Yuval Noah Harari, author of books that move between history, philosophy, and biology, considers imagination to be the human being's main ally in his struggle for survival. In practice, sapiens extend their natural limits with flexible networks of large-scale cooperation identified by the author as fictions or imagined realities. The overcoming of religious narratives has enshrined humanism as the main fictional creation of the modern period of Western history. The innovations of intelligent technologies and the discoveries in the cognitive sciences, however, are seen today as the main causes of risks to the permanence of that narrative model as official. Therefore, the anthropocentric condition favored by the notion of free will is justified as illusory. For the analysis of the proposed problems, Harari's position on the impacts of new intelligent technologies on free will is considered, and how in his predictions the historian approaches the vision written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. In the trail of research in "Law and Literature", it is possible to compare the risks imposed on the individual and his decision-making power in the dystopian reality of "Brave New World" with Harari's cherished predictions about the effects resulting from the use of new digital technologies.