A WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON POST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR*Now with a
new foreword on ChatGPT* _____________ 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. However AI will also challenge the organizing
principles of our economic and social order and 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 AI world in 2041 in ten gripping short stories.
Gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective
future and reminds us that we are the authors of our own destiny.
