The author of 'Sapiens' says 'now is the time' to resist giving AI rights

Yuval Noah Harari. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Yuval Noah Harari says AI could one day make a highly persuasive case for having its own rights. The historian said AI companions could use personal knowledge about humans to sway them to support AI rights. "It will orchestrate the debate. It will manipulate the debate," he said. AI could one day fight for its own "rights," and Yuval Noah Harari says now is the time to make sure that doesn't happen. The historian and author of…