AI 2041

Ten Visions for Our Future

hardcover, 480 pages

Published Sept. 13, 2021 by Currency.

ISBN:
978-0-593-23829-5
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2913292

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4 stars (5 reviews)

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, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping …

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Worth reading, but barely

3 stars

This book rides the line between sci-fi and nonfiction science predictions. The stories are nice, but their main draw comes from the ideas they illustrate about how our world could look in 20 or so years. Each short story is followed by a nonfiction segment explaining what the short story is supposed to illustrate. Those segments are pretty boring as most of what they say can be observed just by reading the short stories and having a little reading comprehension.

The predictions themselves aren't likely to age well. even for their time I think they lack a much-needed political analysis. For technology, they are quite imaginative and consider the interaction between AI and other emerging technologies like AR/VR and 3D printing (fascinating!), but the most they can imagine for emerging politics is UBI and more neoliberalism (boring!).

Review of 'AI 2041' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

It's entertaining to read fleshed out stories of potential paths of AI deployment. I found them a tad dystopic. It aims for the general audience, but it also paints over indexes on risk side, which I find better suited for experts that might otherwise not consider them. Hence, it's a bit off on both target audience counts, in my opinion.

Interesting stories and essays about the potential of AI systems in 2041

4 stars

An interesting collection of stories and essays about the potential of AI systems in 2041. Each story is about an aspect of AI that is now in development or being deployed (for better or worse) in the world and how it impacts the people in the story. An essay follows each story, explaining how the AI systems in the story work at present and the potential of it to affect how we will live in the near future.

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