{"id":236856,"date":"2026-06-16T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=236856"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:39:43","slug":"klaus-schwab-is-back-knowledge-will-become-superfluous-algorithms-will-think-for-us-in-the-future-citizens-should-trust-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/klaus-schwab-is-back-knowledge-will-become-superfluous-algorithms-will-think-for-us-in-the-future-citizens-should-trust-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Klaus Schwab is back: \u201cKnowledge will become superfluous\u201d \u2013 algorithms will think for us in the future, citizens should trust Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If intelligence were to become a service billed according to consumption, the intelligent age would only benefit the elite and those who can afford it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-236857\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/schwab-e1781631560544.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/schwab-e1781631560544.webp 628w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/schwab-e1781631560544-300x185.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The intelligent age is replacing our cognitive abilities with AI, and according to WEF founder Klaus Schwab, universities should focus on teaching students how to use technology competently, rather than simply imparting knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>In a live stream at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, Schwab spoke at length about what he calls \u201c<em>the intelligent age<\/em>\u201d and what this means for jobs, students and humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The architect of the Great Reset agenda compared previous industrial revolutions to the so-called intelligent age, explaining that our thinking abilities were now being delegated to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>What does the intelligent age bring about? It replaces our cognitive abilities with algorithms, or what we call artificial intelligence<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Klaus Schwab, <em>The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership<\/em>, May 2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhat is the Intelligent Age doing? It is replacing our cognitive capabilities by algorithm, or by what we call our artificial intelligence\u201d WEF Founder Klaus Schwab, May 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CBLgLEzDUk\">https:\/\/t.co\/CBLgLEzDUk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oLnZzrmAoZ\">pic.twitter.com\/oLnZzrmAoZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimHinchliffe\/status\/2060430895312466250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Schwab, in this brave new world where intelligence is delegated to algorithms, those who can adapt will be the winners.<\/p>\n<p>However, we will see that this adaptability \u2013 or as the German-born Schwab calls it: \u201c<em>Adaptility<\/em>\u201d [sic] \u2013 means having enough money to afford access to AI knowledge databases and knowing how to use them to one&#8217;s advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>People no longer really understand what is going on [\u2026] We feel like we no longer have control over what is going on [\u2026] We may no longer have complete control over ourselves, but we have to learn to adapt<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Klaus Schwab, <em>The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership<\/em>, May 2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;With artificial intelligence you have many more capabilities to find out what truth is. If I go today to Claude or to ChatGPT or whatever it is, if I make the necessary efforts, I can find out what the truth is&quot; WEF Founder Klaus Schwab, May 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EwYgMA8Czh\">https:\/\/t.co\/EwYgMA8Czh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nmzi3Bbi4q\">pic.twitter.com\/Nmzi3Bbi4q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimHinchliffe\/status\/2060431599670268342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Note how Schwab says, \u201c<em>If I make the necessary effort<\/em>\u201d. Why is that? Because these AI tools scour the internet and display the results with the highest rankings.<\/p>\n<p>A high ranking does not always equate to the truth. Therefore, the necessary efforts should focus on human research.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot rely on an LLM to deliver the truth, because it will reproduce everything that some intelligence officer has secretly edited on <em>Wikipedia<\/em>, or that has been allowed by the censors on <em>Reddit<\/em>, or that has not been allowed by the gatekeepers at <em>Google<\/em> and their unelected globalist partners at the UN.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Schwab places his trust in AI and the big tech companies that they will provide us with all the knowledge we need.<\/p>\n<p>In this scenario, universities are obsolete, and according to the WEF founder, higher education should focus more on teaching how to use new technologies rather than teaching actual knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>You don&#8217;t have to go to university anymore. For any question about knowledge, you can turn to Claude, ChatGPT, or whatever. Knowledge is all around us and free<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Klaus Schwab, <em>The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership<\/em>, May 2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;You don&#39;t have to go to university anymore. For each knowledge question, you can go to Claude, you can go to ChatGPT or whatever. Knowledge is around us and is free of charge&quot; WEF Founder Klaus Schwab, May 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EwYgMA8Czh\">https:\/\/t.co\/EwYgMA8Czh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EU2QVAsmhU\">pic.twitter.com\/EU2QVAsmhU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimHinchliffe\/status\/2060432132854390828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So instead of striving for knowledge, you just have to call the big tech companies and they&#8217;ll give you the right answers for free?<\/p>\n<p>Not if OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has anything to say about it!<\/p>\n<p>In March, Altman explained that, having circumvented all copyright and intellectual property infringements by tapping all of humanity&#8217;s collective knowledge from the internet, he now wanted to sell it back to us once it had been consumed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We envision a future where intelligence is a utility service like electricity or water, and people obtain it from us via a meter.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Sam Altman, <em>BlackRock US Infrastructure Summit<\/em>, March 2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 SAM ALTMAN: \u201cWe see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KuoMDp1upQ\">pic.twitter.com\/KuoMDp1upQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheChiefNerd\/status\/2032012809433723158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If intelligence were to become a service billed according to consumption, then the age of intelligence would only benefit those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Everything Schwab said was reserved for the elite. The poor would remain not only poor, but also ignorant.<\/p>\n<p>And it all begins with education.<\/p>\n<p>According to Schwab, we should abandon our pursuit of knowledge. Instead, we should focus on our \u201c<em>abilities<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And what kind of skills are we talking about?<\/p>\n<p>The ability to interact with a chatbot, and one should return to university every year to receive their updated certificate, as if it were a subscription that commits one to AI and Big Tech companies for life.<\/p>\n<p>Schwab calls this a transition from \u201c<em>learning for life to lifelong learning<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Of course, you need training, you need education, but it should primarily be training in skills and less in knowledge.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Klaus Schwab, <em>The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership<\/em>, May 2026<\/p>\n<p>Since only the elite have access to on-demand information and lifelong learning, Schwab acknowledged that the WEF has long been criticized as elitist.<\/p>\n<p>However, he never really denied being an elitist.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he reaffirmed the idea that \u201c<em>we are part of a global community<\/em>,\u201d which contradicts sovereign states and differing cultural values that are not shared by a \u201c<em>global community<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Of course, the forum has often been criticized as elitist [\u2026] I have very often been called an elitist globalist or something similar. Globalization should not be a philosophy or ideology. We are part of a global community. We are interdependent worldwide.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Klaus Schwab, <em>The Age of Intelligence and the Responsibility of African Leadership<\/em>, May 2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The WEF &quot;was very often criticized for being elite.. I was very often called the elite globalist. Globalization should not be a philosophy or an ideology. We are part of a global community. We are globally interdependent&quot; WEF Founder Klaus Schwab, May 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EwYgMA8Czh\">https:\/\/t.co\/EwYgMA8Czh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ABEynoGdC3\">pic.twitter.com\/ABEynoGdC3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimHinchliffe\/status\/2060432880870867199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When Schwab spoke about the WEF, he explained that he created it in 1971 to contradict <em>Nobel<\/em> laureate and economist Milton Friedman, who had said that the job of businesses was to do business.<\/p>\n<p>Schwab rejected this and developed the concept of \u201c<em>stakeholdership<\/em>\u201d to contrast with \u201c<em>shareholdership<\/em>\u201d, explaining that the entire focus of the WEF was to be a platform for promoting stakeholder capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I was fascinated by Milton Friedman [\u2026] and he had written an editorial in the <\/em>New York Times<em> in which he said: \u2018The job of business is business, and everything that is social is left to government to regulate.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I came to the conclusion: &#8216;No! A company is not just an economic entity; it is part of society [\u2026]&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That is why I founded the World Economic Forum \u2013 as a platform to further develop this idea of stakeholder capitalism<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Klaus Schwab, <em>The Intelligent Age and the Responsibility of African Leadership<\/em>, May 2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I was fascinated by Milton Friedman.. saying the business of business is business.. I came to the conclusion, NO!.. I created the World Economic Forum as a platform to develop this idea of stakeholder capitalism&quot; WEF Founder Klaus Schwab, May 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EwYgMA8Czh\">https:\/\/t.co\/EwYgMA8Czh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/00Ku6lcJY9\">pic.twitter.com\/00Ku6lcJY9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimHinchliffe\/status\/2060433622688034939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stakeholder capitalism is only possible through public-private partnerships \u2013 the fusion of corporations and the state. The stakeholders are governments, corporations, and civil society \u2013 the latter consisting of academics, NGOs, and unelected globalist think tanks.<\/p>\n<p>It is dominated by the so-called expert and technocratic classes, who bribe the state to grant them more power and influence, while the state delegates to the experts and technocrats what it cannot legally do.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you are looking for well-documented and thoroughly cited research on Klaus Schwab and the origins of the WEF, you will find exactly what you need in investigative journalist Johnny Vedmore and his article <em>Dr. Klaus Schwab; or how the CFR taught me to stop worrying and to love the bomb<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Vedmore begins his investigation with the subheading: \u201c<em>The World Economic Forum was not simply the idea of Klaus Schwab, but actually originated from a CIA-funded Harvard program under the direction of Henry Kissinger and was pushed to realization by John Kenneth Galbraith and the \u2018real\u2019 Dr. Strangelove, Herman Kahn<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After stepping down from the WEF last year, the architect of the Great Reset founded the Schwab Academy as a platform to accompany his book series on the so-called intelligent age.<\/p>\n<p>The entire livestream of Klaus Schwab at the University of Johannesburg can be found on the Schwab Academy <em>YouTube<\/em> channel below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"fitvidsignore\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOzCl9OmThs?si=-ZeBTr9jKCGcb4dX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>June 16, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If intelligence were to become a service billed according to consumption, the intelligent age would only benefit the elite and those who can afford it The intelligent age is replacing our cognitive abilities with AI, and according to WEF founder Klaus Schwab, universities should focus on teaching students how to use technology competently, rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-threat-of-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236860,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236856\/revisions\/236860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}