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. Eye-opening.”-Mark Cuban AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Lee and Chen take us on an immersive trip through the future.

“This inspired collaboration between a pioneering technologist and a visionary writer of science fiction offers bold and urgent insights.”-Yann LeCun, winner of the Turing Award chief AI scientist, Facebook “Amazingly entertaining.

In Munich, a rogue quantum computing 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.How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? A WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR.

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 throws herself into 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, Lee and Chen introduce readers to an array of eye-opening characters and situations, including: 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.

AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century.

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