--- title: "Harari, Work and Artificial Intelligence | Sami Miettinen | Negotiator 154" titleOriginal: "Harari työ vs tekoäly | Sami Miettinen | Neuvottelija 154" episodeNumber: "154" guest: "Sami Miettinen" datePublished: 2022-09-23 duration: "22:20" youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xPqiGN82A" originalLanguage: "fi" topics: ["ai_enterprise_tech","leadership_governance"] subtitleMethod: "none" provenance: "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. No chapter marks are published here: the publisher's list holds only two marks, at 0:00 and 0:31, and it is a split of the show-note text rather than a chapter list, so republishing it would assert timestamps that do not hold. No transcript is published either — the channel has no English caption track for this episode and the Finnish one is YouTube's automatic track. This is a solo episode: the host is the only speaker, so the criticism of Harari's work is one reader's and Harari is not present to answer it. The AI capability assessments are those of September 2022 and several have been overtaken." fiCanonical: "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/218-harari-tyo-vs-tekoaly-sami-miettinen-neuvottelija-154" canonical: https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep154-harari-tyo-ja-tekoaly-sami-miettinen/ --- # Harari, Work and Artificial Intelligence | Sami Miettinen | Negotiator 154 English subtitles are not available on this page. This is an episode summary, not a curated transcript. ## Summary Yuval Noah Harari spoke at Nordic Business Forum about what work people will be doing in 2050 and what a six-year-old ought to be taught now. Sami Miettinen works through Harari's output from Sapiens to Homo Deus and marks where the forecasting holds and where it does not. The episode asks why intelligence and creativity turn out to be automatable exactly in so far as they are pattern recognition, why the priest and the athlete survive, and why politicians should not be replaced by AI even though the totalitarian temptation is considerable. It also criticises the details of Harari's monetary theory and his failure to localise, and considers the risks of gene technology. It closes on the resolution of the Fortum–Uniper affair and why a change-of-control clause was probably the decisive lever. ## A criterion, not a reassurance The useful move here is to replace the comforting claim that creative work is safe with a test: whatever part of a task is pattern recognition is automatable, whoever performs it. That cuts across the usual manual-versus-knowledge division and puts some prestigious work on the wrong side of the line. ## Why the priest and the athlete survive Because the thing being purchased is a human doing it. No improvement in the output changes that, which makes these the clean cases — and the test for every other occupation is how much of its value has the same property. ## The clause that decided Uniper The closing section leaves Harari entirely. In the Fortum–Uniper resolution the change-of-control provision is identified as the lever that set the terms, which is a point about contract drafting rather than about energy policy — and the more portable lesson of the two. ## Watch The recording lives on the Neuvottelija channel: [Harari työ vs tekoäly | Sami Miettinen | Neuvottelija 154](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xPqiGN82A). A Finnish edition of this episode is published at [www.neuvottelija.fi](https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/218-harari-tyo-vs-tekoaly-sami-miettinen-neuvottelija-154). ## In depth The Neuvottelija AI editions carry a long-form write-up of this episode: [English](https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep154-harari-tyo-ja-tekoaly-sami-miettinen/) · [suomeksi](https://www.neuvottelija.fi/tools/ep154-harari-tyo-ja-tekoaly-sami-miettinen/). ## Explore the ideas in depth - [Enterprise AI Agents: Economics, Governance and the Shift From Tools to Workers](https://www.neuvottelija.com/guides/enterprise-ai-agents-economics-and-governance/): A guide to enterprise AI agents — the real cost model behind agent work, why owning your own stack is becoming a strategic question, a working governance framework with approval gates and audit trails, the agent risk matrix, the EU AI Act timeline as it stands, and who captures the productivity gains. Grounded in a real multi-agent lab, two 2026 keynotes, and Neuvottelija conversations. - [Nordic SaaS Valuation & M&A: How AI Reprices Software Companies](https://www.neuvottelija.com/guides/nordic-saas-valuation-and-ma/): How software companies in the Nordics are valued and sold as AI moves inference into the cost of goods sold — where multiples stand in mid-2026, the metrics that get repriced, why vertical SaaS defends its premium, AI due diligence, and the shift from seats to outcomes. Grounded in Translink's SaaS valuation work and Neuvottelija conversations. --- Cite as: Sami Miettinen, Neuvottelija — Harari, Work and Artificial Intelligence | Sami Miettinen | Negotiator 154, https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep154-harari-tyo-ja-tekoaly-sami-miettinen/, 2022-09-23. For quotes include episode 154 and timestamp.