How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed
writer team up for a dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that brims with
intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee. A
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post Financial Times Long
before the advent of ChatGPT Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of
artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the
power of AI many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models
are only the beginning. In this inspired collaboration” (The Wall Street Journal) Lee and Chen
join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping
globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary their book introduces readers to an
array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential
harms of AI technologies like deep learning mixed reality robotics artificial general
intelligence and autonomous weapons.
