A WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST
BOOK OF THE YEAR 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? AI will be the defining development of
the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily
human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented
wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine
symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and
entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will
also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social
order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous
weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. 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. 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. In
ten gripping short stories, set twenty years in the future, they
introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings: In San
Francisco, a new industry, "job reallocation," arises to serve
displaced workers In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive
form of celebrity worship In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI
gets in the way of romance In Seoul, virtual teachers offer
orphaned twins new ways to learn and connect In Munich, a rogue
quantum computer scientist's revenge plot imperils the world By
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.
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