However, in this story, an Indian girl whose family registers for the AI-enabled insurance program is “nudged” to avoid a boy from a lower caste. The idea is that by trying to capture and maintain our attention, social media algorithms are reinforcing negative emotions of fear and anger while reinforcing our pre-existing biases. At the moment, the externality that people are most fixated on is political polarization. The chapter is an excellent introduction to deep learning and the concept of AI externalities. The first of the ten stories, “The Golden Elephant,” explores an insurance program that requires users to download apps, some of which help the users lead healthy lifestyles, thus lowering their premiums. However, for the purpose of this review, I have focused on three. The book offers ten unique gateways into the future of AI. Moreover, because the book discusses topics as wide-ranging as education, jobs, happiness, and romance, scholars of many different disciplines will find this book useful.

The marriage of story-telling with analysis is a model that I hope future researchers will duplicate. Additionally, because of the quality of the story-telling, I also found the chapters moving. xv).Īs a non-expert in AI, I found the authors’ approach to the topic useful, timely, and accessible. As Kai-Fu Lee argues, “ even with few or no breakthroughs, AI is still poised to make a profound impact on our society” (italics in the original) (p. The stories are fictional and imaginative, but also “realistic” in the sense that they do not exaggerate the potential of AI. How can we better understand what AI is and what it isn’t? How can we better balance AI optimism and pessimism? How can we conceptualize the human dilemmas of AI? The two authors of this book, former colleagues at Google, use their expertise in AI in unique ways: Chen Quifan focuses on telling engaging stories grounded in realistic assessments of AI capabilities, while Kai-Fu Lee analyzes these stories, expanding our understanding of the technologies and their possible impacts. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan.

Ai 2041 book review