Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan

Hailed as a best book of the year by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, AI 2041 is the “dazzling” (New York Times) and prescient exploration of how AI would begin transforming our world

In this provocative, utterly original work of “scientific fiction,” Kai-Fu Lee, investor, technologist, and one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by A.I.. In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening settings and technologies, from autonomous weapons and vehicles, to A.I. teachers, and intelligent household robots. In San Francisco, a new industry, “job reallocation,” arises to serve displaced workers; in Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship; in Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI gets in the way of romance. AI 2041 is an “inspired collaboration” (Wall Street Journal) that “brims with intriguing insight” (Financial Times) into our collective future.