Intelligence Squared

AI 2041: Why the Future is Already Here, with Kai-Fu Lee

Sep 24, 2021

Kai-Fu Lee, a leading AI expert and bestselling author, shares insights into the transformative potential and challenges of AI over the next two decades. He discusses his imaginative book, co-written with novelist Chen Qiufan, which envisions AI's impact on human life. Their scenarios range from teenage romances disrupted by technology to the existential threats posed by advanced AI. Lee emphasizes the ethical implications of AI, urging for transparency and a focus on user well-being, while also highlighting AI's revolutionary role in healthcare and climate action.

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Intro

5min

The Transformative Power of AI

12min

AI's Double-Edged Sword

12min

The Ethics of AI: Fairness and Bias

10min

AI's Potential and Challenges

13min

AI in Healthcare and Job Transformation

8min

The Future of AI in Interviews: Human Touch vs. Machine Efficiency

2min

Kai-Fu Lee is one of the world’s leading AI experts and a bestselling author. He founded Microsoft Asia’s research lab that has trained CTOs and AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei. As President of Google China he helped establish the company in the Chinese market. And now, as CEO of Sinovation Ventures, he is investing in China’s high-tech sector, giving him a unique perspective on how AI is set to change our world over the next 20 years. On September 22 Lee came to Intelligence Squared to explain how AI is at an inflection point and urged us to wake up to its radiant possibilities as well as to the existential threats it poses to life as we know it. In conversation with Kamal Ahmed, former Editorial Director of the BBC, he discussed his new work of ‘scientific fiction’, AI 2041, co-authored with the celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan. The book offers up eye-opening scenarios of our techno-future – from a teenage girl’s rebellion when AI gets in the way of romance to a rogue quantum computer scientist’s revenge plot that imperils the world. To buy his new book AI 2041 with the Intelligence Squared discount click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/ai-2041-ten-visions-for-our-future-kai-fu-lee-chen-qiufan/

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