


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.

Manga, Novela Gráfica y Libros IlustradosĪ WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
