Yuval Noah Harari in an interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED

"'Common people' are right to be fearful of a future in which they will be made 'redundant', according to World Economic Forum (WEF) advisor Yuval Noah Harari, who said 'We just don’t need the vast majority of the population' in the early 21st century given modern technologies.

Harari’s extraordinary remarks were made in an interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED, published in August 2022