AI luminary Kai-Fu Lee and sci-fi author Chen Qiufan predict the future in 'AI 2041' – TechCrunch

Where will today's technologies lead us over the next 20 years, and what will an AI-infused world look like across the globe? Sinovation founder and AI thought leader Kai-Fu Lee and breakout sci-fi author Chen Qiufan (aka Stanley Chen) make an educated guess in "AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future" a set of 10 stories and 10 essays exploring and explaining the potential and pitfalls of AI. After reading the book -- I'll be publishing a review shortly and TechCrunch recently posted an excerpt -- I talked with Lee and Chen at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 about how the collaboration came about, how their points of view coincided and differed, and why they think the future will be how they describe it. Lee and Chen found each other a few years ago -- one a successful thought leader and entrepreneur in AI, the other an author whose incisive depictions of near-future dilemmas earned him international acclaim. They decided to collaborate on a hybrid work that would have narratives born out of informed speculation and expository pieces illustrated by narrative.