Shadowing Practice: A revolution that takes our power? | Yuval Noah Harari - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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The whole point of the AI revolution is that control and power is shifting away from humans to something else.
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The whole point of the AI revolution is that control and power is shifting away from humans to something else.
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Every previous revolution in the history of the world, the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, they gave humans more power.
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No matter what we invented, the steam engine, the atom bomb,
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the airplane, it gave us more power because we decided what to do with the steam engine, what to do with the atom bomb.
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AI is the first technology which is not a tool in our hand.
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It is an agent.
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An agent is something that can make decisions by itself, can invent new ideas by itself.
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So by definition, what's happening is that we are losing power for the first time in history to something else.
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So it's getting out of our control and we cannot foresee, we cannot envision what will happen, what it will do.

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You're practicing English with "A revolution that takes our power? | Yuval Noah Harari" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

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Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.