AI 2041

In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, Kai Fu Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers, and leading science fiction writer Chen Qiufan, join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years?

AI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars. Though the term has been around for half a century, it is only now, Kai-Fu Lee argues, that AI is poised to upend our society, just as the arrival of technologies like electricity and smart phones did before it. In the past five years, AI has shown it can learn games like chess in mere hours - and beat humans every time. AI has surpassed humans in speech and object recognition, even outperforming radiologists in diagnosing lung cancer. AI is at a tipping point. What comes next?

Within two decades, aspects of daily life may be unrecognizable. Humankind needs to wake up to AI, both its pathways and perils. In this provocative work that juxtaposes speculative storytelling and science, Lee, one of the world's leading AI experts, has teamed up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to reveal how AI will trickle down into every aspect of our world by 2041. In ten gripping short stories that crisscross the globe, coupled with incisive analysis, Lee and Chen explore AI's challenges and its potential:
- Ubiquitous AI that knows you better than you know yourself
- Genetic fortune-telling that predicts risk of disease or even IQ
- AI sensors that creates a fully "contactless" society in a future pandemic
- Immersive personalized entertainment to challenge our notion of celebrity
- Quantum computing and other leaps that both eliminate and increase risk

By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers powerful insights and compelling storytelling for everyone interested in our collective future.

Dr Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers (2018). Lee was formerly the President of Google China, and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. His audience across global social media platforms is greater than 50 million, and his books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide.
Stanley Chan (a.k.a. Chen Qiufan) Chan is award-winning Chinese speculative fiction author, translator, creative producer and curator. He is a member of WSFA (Science Fiction Writer Association) and the President of the Chinese Science Fiction Writer Association and has a seat in Xprize Foundation Science Fiction Advisory Council. His works, which have been translated into move than a dozen languages, include Waste Tide, Future Diseases, and The Algorithm For Life.