AI 2041: Why the Future is Already Here, with Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee is one of the world\u2019s leading AI experts and a bestselling author. He founded Microsoft Asia\u2019s 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\u2019s high-tech sector, giving him a unique perspective on how AI is set to change our world over the next 20 years.\xa0On September 22 Lee came to Intelligence Squared to explain how AI is at an inflection point\xa0and 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 \u2018scientific fiction\u2019, AI 2041, co-authored with the celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan. The book offers up eye-opening scenarios of our techno-future \u2013 from a teenage girl\u2019s rebellion when AI gets in the way of romance to a rogue quantum computer scientist\u2019s revenge plot that imperils the world.\xa0To 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/\n\nSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\n\nSee acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices