Through amazingly entertaining stories, Lee and Chen take us on an immersive trip through the future and then zoom out with exceptionally clear explanations of the technology at work. The perfect fusion of science and fiction, illuminating the pervasive impact artificial intelligence will have in our lives and the challenges we face in shaping a techno-future that benefits all of humanity Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO, Salesforce

We have reached a momentous inflection point with AI, and no other book I've read captures it with such stunning insight and imagination Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global In Munich, a rogue quantum computer scientist's revenge plot imperils the worldīy gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future-while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny. In Seoul, virtual teachers offer orphaned twins new ways to learn and connect In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI gets in the way of romance In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship In San Francisco, a new industry, 'job reallocation,' arises to serve displaced workers In ten gripping short stories, set twenty years in the future, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings: In this provocative, utterly original work of 'scientific fiction,' Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.

Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment.

Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?ĪI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. New York Times bestselling non-fiction author joins forces with a celebrated science-fiction novelist to blend imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting to ask how artificial intelligence will change our world over the next 20 years.Ī WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

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