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. 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. You can catch the full program here and enjoy reading the blog recap here.AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century.

Join us as Kai-Fu Lee draws from his newest book, AI 2041: Ten Visions For Our Future, to make predictions and share insights into our collective future-and how humankind remains the author of its destiny. This set of stories brings to life how AI might revolutionize education through human-machine symbiosis, create new forms of communication and entertainment, challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order, and bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology. In Munich, a rogue quantum computer scientist imperils the world with his revenge plot with AI-enabled autonomous weapons.In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship with her idol’s “ghost” brought back to life through AI and VR.In San Francisco, a new industry, “job reallocation,” arises to serve displaced workers and calls into question the nature of what work might be in the AI future.How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? Leading AI expert Kai-Fu Lee and novelist Chen Qiufan joined forces to create ten science fiction stories that show how AI might shape our lives.Īll set in 2041, the stories span the globe, including:

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