Harari's 2024 book places AI inside the long history of how information networks shape societies — a frame for seeing the wave as another information revolution, not an isolated event.
Hinton left Google in 2023 so he could speak freely about AI's risks — a builder stepping back to tell the truth is itself a story about exits and trade-offs.
The 2024 physics Nobel went to Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for the foundations of neural-network machine learning — the establishment itself marking the wave as real, not hype.