Machines and Morality
Of course, if you see people as being, fundamentally, machines, then there really are no moral problems. This is the quandary Harari finds himself in. He knows that AI totalitarianism would be bad, but ultimately his defence of the human is no match for it because his sense of the human is so thoroughly demystified and disenchanted. He never seems to ask whether this thoroughgoing demystification is itself another narrative and if it perhaps leaves out key features of human experience. But if he ever asked himself whether human beings are more than just biological machines, he would have to restart his entire intellectual project from scratch.
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