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Yuval Noah Harari, a decade after the publication of his bestseller The Wise Man, an optimistic account of man's conquest of the earth and the shaping of common stories and goals by working together, warns of the future: "I think that our ability to work together and Belief in shared stories... is collapsing. I see this in my own country, Israel, which is on the verge of a constitutional crisis and perhaps even a civil war. This Israeli historian, in a conversation he had before the recent war between Hamas and Israel with Steven Seker from the BBC's global section, sees another danger for human civilization in the expansion of the use of artificial intelligence: "Perhaps artificial intelligence will not save us from destroy, but take control of the world and hack our civilization". The translation of this interview will be broadcast this week on BBC Farsi, with the reminder that an interview with him was conducted last week in the Farsi section of the BBC, following the recent developments and war in the Middle East.